Human Rights

If you watch the television news for very long, you realize the disequilibrium from images of destruction that focus on objects, without much regard for the “subjects” being threatened, destroyed. This understanding comes with a realization that just as we…

Press conference On the eve of a vital UN moment for biodiversity, “nature-based solutions” are once again wrongly touted as the solution. Nature-based solutions” promote the illusion that plants and soils can undo the damage to the climate caused by…

We all recognize the escalating violence that plagues our planet. It is not something new. Violence has always been there because it is inherent in the system we live in.  At times we are shaken by the spectacle of war,…

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has urged the Moroccan authorities to immediately release Yahya Mohamed Elhafed Iaazza, the oldest Saharawi political prisoner in Western Sahara, who is serving a 15 year sentence. Yahya Mohamed, 55 years…

Russian President Putin has claimed that he ordered the invasion of Ukraine to “denazify” its government, while Western officials, such as former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, have called this pure propaganda, insisting, “There are no Nazis in Ukraine.” By…

A sit-in was held in Quito in response to the shortage of drugs to treat catastrophic illnesses. By Viviana Erazo With slogans and banners, members of the Social Security Institute, IESS, staged a sit-in to denounce the lack of medicines…

Women’s Day in Iran is a strange day. On the one hand, it is a country traditionally shrouded in patriarchy and, on the other, its people have to deal with the laws of Islam in the smallest detail of their…

Buoyed by international union solidarity and hearkening to the revolutionary legacy of Jean-Jacque Dessalines, Haitian strikers facing state violence and lowball concessions remain undeterred. By Frances Madeson –  This story originally appeared in therealnews.com on March 4, 2022. It is…

First and foremost, let it be clear that I do not defend or support the use of force, and even less so the use of armed force, conventional or non-conventional. What follows is not about the world to which I…

The Rohingya and Afghan refugee issues are also currently important international issues.  More than 1.1 million Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017 due to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. About 50,000 newborn Rohingya children are added…