... School of Journalism. She has nearly two decades of experience as a writer and editor covering development, environment and human rights issues at the Inter Press Service United Nations bureau in New York, ...
Viewpoint by Champa Patel*
LONDON (IDN) – Southeast Asia already had a poor human rights record before the COVID-19 outbreak. Despite ASEAN’s rhetoric on democratic values and human rights, illiberal ...
Viewpoint by Sonali Kolhatkar
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – “Meeting with foreign diplomats is not a crime. Nor is peacefully advocating for human rights.” Those were the first words of Antony Blinken ...
... of California to spread the message to vote NO on Prop 16 among the local constituents.
The event endorsed by Californians For Equal Rights (CFER) and planned by a team of local volunteers reminded one ...
Burt Neuborne Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies
By Steven Rosenfeld *
The writer is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of Voting Booth, ...
... makes it a criminal offense to provide assistance to undocumented migrants applying for asylum or residency permits.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights organisation, has accused Orbán ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown have made things very difficult for me as I work on the ground with people and communities, but I live alone.
I became a human rights activist after my son, ...
Viewpoint by Franziska Korn, Friedich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)*
BERLIN (IDN) – For over half a decade, the German government has been working to enact mandatory compliance for companies regarding human rights ...
... for providers as well as the rights of donors, surrogate mothers and patients.
Reproductive health has been enacted into law in different ways across the continent. A number of countries have similarly ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – A world court designed to investigate allegations of human rights violations has found itself in the crosshairs of the President of the United ...
... rights. … It has poked its nose in the affairs of almost all countries, all the time presenting itself as the torch-bearer of human rights", noted India's WIONEWS TV.
In addition to the murder of African-American ...
... Asia. It has come at a time when governments are inflicting sustained assaults on their rights. Minorities face severe obstacles in accessing their right to nationality amidst rising majoritarian nationalism ...
That's Why We Need Wickileaks and Julian Assange Should Be Exonerated.
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – Julian Assange of Wickileaks languishes in a British jail during a too-long wait ...
By J W Jackie
RENO, Nevada, USA (IDN) – Facebook and Google play an important role in the lives of people across the globe – too big a role, according to Amnesty International. The pro-human rights organization ...
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SINGAPORE (IDN) — Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Relations, Dinesh Gunawardena, has officially withdrawn from the co-sponsorship of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution ...
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) – Biram Dah Abeid, a descendant of former slaves who has been called "the Nelson Mandela of Mauritania", and Shaparak Shajarizadeh, a prominent Iranian women's rights activist ...
... because they are pregnant.
The Bank had been under pressure from rights activists and held a last-minute emergency meeting on January 27 with Tanzanian and international human rights organizations.
The ...
... The World Report 2020: Human Rights Trends Around the Globe focusing on China and presented at the UN affirms that Mr. Guterres does not want to offend the countries that HRW calls grave human rights abusers. ...
By Fabíola Ortiz
MADRID (IDN) – The youth and human rights activists have been emphasizing since the start of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) on December 2 the pressing need of placing people ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – The Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ goes to five human rights activists this year. Among them is Aminatou ...
... in Cairo, Egypt, ended with bold commitments towards attainment of the rights of women and girls.
The conference, attended by more than 6,000 world leaders, scholars, rights advocates and faith leaders ...
... of rights for Afro-descendant people in Latin America and the Caribbean", San José, Costa Rica, in October 2019.
NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Leave no one behind – that is the global community’s ambitious pledge. ...
By Sean Buchanan
NEW YORK (IDN) – The experts who fan out across the world to research, hold consultations and gather information on a vast range of human rights violations often find themselves caught ...
By Kalinga Seneviratne
This article is the 34th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. Click here for previous articles. ...
... Trump’s campaign against sexual and reproductive rights, which includes a global gag rule that slashed funding for overseas nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions or even offer counseling ...
... of principles of governance underwriting a new world order that defines states in civilisational rather than national terms and legitimises violations of human rights.
While the invitation to Hu Angang, ...
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Yet, understandably, EU countries insist that in return for helping to re-build Syria the government must commit itself to a human rights agenda – the freeing of political prisoners, the end of torture ...
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) – People’s rights are under fire “in many parts of the globe,” but there is no need to lose hope, because powerful grassroots movements for social justice have made great ...
By Katsuhiro Asagiri
TOKYO (IDN) – When the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Paris on December 10, 1948, it came up with a milestone document in the history ...
... accompanied the colonizers. Today, when U.S. or NATO missiles rain on countries, Western human rights organisations and their activists follow them, with their media in tow. They also have a similar mindset: ...
By Aleksandra Gadzinski
KATOWICE (IDN) – Independent experts of the UN Human Rights Council, are calling on States to fully integrate human rights standards and principles in the rules for implementing ...
By Neena Bhandari
SYDNEY (IDN) – More investment is needed in human rights education and strengthening of civil society to address inequality and sustainability – the main objectives of the United Nations ...
... the rule of law, human rights, media freedom and tolerance in our pluralist society". We are publishing this statement in full with a view to offering a perspective different from that reflected in two ...
By Jamshed Baruah
PARIS (IDN) – A diverse group of 150 human rights defenders from around the world, who gathered for a three-day summit in Paris, have agreed on a landmark action plan which will be ...
... Khashoggi, independent UN human rights experts have commended business leaders who have decided to pull out of a high-level investment conference – also known as 'Davos in the Desert' – taking place October ...
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) – For the second time since July 31, UN human rights experts are calling on Saudi Arabia to "immediately and unconditionally" release all women human rights defenders, including ...
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) – The Social Forum of the UN Human Rights Council serves since 2008 as a unique space for open and interactive dialogue between civil society actors, representatives of ...
... the first draft of a legally binding treaty in International Human Rights Law has been submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will they have the courage to stand up for the people against powerful ...
... of forests and lands worldwide and the recognition of indigenous peoples' and traditional communities' collective land rights and resource management.
For the purpose, they have announced their intent ...
... Rights, Secretary-General António Guterres tweeted: "Ms. Bachelet is a pioneer, a visionary, a woman of principle, and a great human rights leader for these troubled times." He had had put forward her candidacy ...
By Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world's leading international human rights organizations, which operates in more than 90 countries. This article ...
By Ramesh Jaura
UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – The outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, has expressed "acute concerns" over the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian ...
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | GENEVA (IDN) – In its first ever report on the human rights situation in Indian- and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir, the UN has listed human rights violations and abuses on ...
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) – The Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue, Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali Al Qassim, has called upon societies worldwide to embrace models of equal citizenship ...
... Development Goals (SDGs). But despite progress to protect their rights, many of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples face discrimination and threats to their livelihoods and ancestral lands.
To ...
... of rights for women has been ratified by 189 states. However, as Dr. Mokra noted, even if the treaty were ratified by all countries, it would not necessarily lead to worldwide compliance until the existing ...
... (IDN) – Of the numerous and significant challenges currently facing women and girls globally, access to sexual and reproductive rights is high on the list. Experts in the field of women’s sexual and reproductive ...
... Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as a turning point in the global history of efforts to achieve peace and disarmament, emphasizing that while nuclear weapons exist, a world of peace and human rights ...
By Jaya Ramachandran
GENEVA (IDN) – Despite being elected as member of the Human Rights Council at the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia has “continued its practice of silencing, arbitrarily arresting, detaining ...
... – A key UN Committee has condemned Iran's widespread use of the death penalty and has urged the Islamic Republic to eliminate "all discrimination and rights violations against women and girls."
In a separate ...