EU Commission Should Stop Ignoring Tunisia’s Abuses Against Migrants
Click to expand Image Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte, left, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Tunisian President Kais Saied, centre, right and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Should Extend Ethiopia Investigations
Click to expand Image Displaced persons center in northern Ethiopia where many still suffer from the effects of the war that began in 2020, August 14, 2023. © 2023 Edgar GutiÈrrez / SOPA Images/Sipa...
View ArticleProminent Journalist Denied Bail in Congo
Click to expand Image Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023. © 2023 Actualite.cd A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo denied provisional release to journalist...
View ArticleEuropean Court Hears Climate Crisis Case Brought by Children
Click to expand Image Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire at the village of Chaveira, near Macao, in central Portugal on Monday, July 22, 2019. © AP Photo/Sergio Azenha Three years ago, four...
View ArticleNo, Syria Is Still Not Safe for Refugee Returns
Click to expand Image Migrants from Syria walk towards a refugee camp at Kokkinotrimithia, outside of the capital Nicosia, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, September 10, 2017. © 2017...
View ArticleBeijing’s Increasingly Desperate Attempts to Squelch UN Criticism
Click to expand Image China's then-Minister for Foreign Affairs Qin Gang delivers a remote statement during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 27, 2023. © 2023...
View ArticleTime to Ban Facial Recognition from Public Spaces and Borders
Click to expand Image Pedestrians walk across a crossroad as a big electronic screen supported by face-recognition system shows the image of a jaywalker at the intersection in Nanjing city, east...
View ArticleClashes in Lebanon Risk Disrupting Education for Thousands of Children
Click to expand Image Palestinian residents who fled their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, carry their belongings as they board a bus to be moved from Sidon municipality to an...
View ArticleVietnam: Rights Reforms Urgently Needed
(Geneva) – The Vietnamese government should face close scrutiny at its upcoming United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for its deepening crackdown on activists and failure to reform abusive...
View ArticleGlobal Demand for Universal Social Security
Click to expand Image A woman walks with an umbrella in the Dilli Haat open air market in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2023. © Photo by Avishek Das / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)...
View ArticleClashes in Lebanon Risk Disrupting Education for Thousands of Children
Click to expand Image Palestinian residents who fled their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, carry their belongings as they board a bus to be moved from Sidon municipality to an...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Reconsider ‘Anonymous Birthing’ Bill
Click to expand Image Pregnant woman in Seoul, South Korea. © RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images (Seoul) – The South Korean government should reconsider the new Protected Birth Bill, which promotes anonymous...
View ArticleAustralians with Disabilities Face Pervasive Abuse
Click to expand Image A prisoner with an assistive chair in Wolston Correctional Centre, Queensland. If the physical infrastructure is not accessible, simple tasks, such as going to the toilet or...
View ArticleHuman Rights Council: EU Fails Ethiopia’s Victims
Click to expand Image People collect water from a tank in a compound of abandoned buildings, where internally displaced people are sheltered, near the town of Dubti, in the Afar region of northern...
View ArticleIMF / World Bank: Systemic Reforms Needed
Click to expand Image The International Monetary Fund building in Washington, D.C., April 5, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Andrew Harnik (Marrakesh) – Discussions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and...
View ArticleGuarantee Right to Return to Nagorno Karabakh
Click to expand Image A convoy of cars of ethnic Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, September 26, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov (Berlin, October 5, 2023) – Governments involved in...
View ArticleOlympic Committee’s Rights Commitments Tested in India
Click to expand Image India's top female wrestlers and their supporters protest against Wrestling Federation of India President Brijbhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual abuse, New Delhi, May 23,...
View ArticleOn the Road to Abolishing Immigration Detention in Canada
When I met “Amina” two years ago, she told me her family’s journey sounded like the perfect Canadian story: escaping war-torn Afghanistan with her parents and three siblings, and ultimately finding...
View ArticleRussia, China Unfit for UN’s Top Rights Body
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleMauritian Court Finds Sodomy Law Unconstitutional, Discriminatory
Click to expand Image A march for the rights of LGBT people and gender equality in the town of Rose Hill, Mauritius, June 2, 2007. © 2007 Jean Alain Laportine/Reuters Two landmark judgments of the...
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