Human Rights

A collaboration by: Patricio Ávila López (text and photo) The growing wave of demonstrations that Ecuador is experiencing in response to high fuel prices and the consequent inflation of basic necessities; the lack of medicines in hospitals and other social…

News in progress by Radio Temblor Internacional In the early hours of Tuesday 14 June, the National Police and the Armed Forces of Ecuador arrested the indigenous leader Leonidas Iza after the start of the national days of protest against…

As I write this text, my heart trembles with pain, fear, and a sense of impotence… Under the justification of “establishing a minimum standard of conduct for citizens during a police approach”, federal deputy Bibo Nunes (PL-RS) presented bill 5610/2019,…

The Spanish Human Rights Association for Human Rights in Andalusia (APDHA) says that “we are living in times in which rights that we thought were already consolidated are being questioned”. It affirms that the balance could tip towards the most…

Until 25.06.2022, all EU citizens can sign online for an Unconditional Basic Income (www.sign.eci-ubi.eu) UBI. The citizens’ initiative of all 27 EU countries is an invitation to the European Commission to become active and to develop proposals for unconditional basic…

The war in Ukraine is serving as a justification for multinationals to speculate massively on the prices of commodities, as well as energy and world transport. The war in Ukraine could have been avoided if its president had not wanted…

The DOCTORS FOR ASSANGE, a group of doctors from around the world that formed in October 2019 to voice our serious concerns about the health of Julian Assange and to condemn the violations of his right to be free from…

Full page ad in Tuesdays @guardian: 1800 Journalists from the UK and around the world urge the British government to block the extradition of Julian Assange The case against Julian Assange is a threat to Journalists everywherehttps://t.co/EFPgZn2md8 #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange pic.twitter.com/uyQNfdrQT8 —…

Yesterday was June 14th, and for the families of the 72 victims who died of suffocation in the Grenfell Tower fire in London five years ago, it was again a day of grief. It was day marked by a solemn…

On the closure of the investigation into the carabineros linked to the Meiggs shopkeepers’ delinquency This Monday May 30, 2022, with great surprise and profound disappointment we learned through the press, in an interview with the head of the Metropolitan…