Human Rights

Same old song every year. The EU wants total digital control and sells it to us as child protection. The only new thing is that this time, the UK jumped ahead and has already introduced mandatory ID checks. And although…

Philippine capital faces over 23,000 displaced residents as government pushes waste-to-energy project despite human rights concerns Manila City, Philippines – 18 August 2025 – Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is under fire for carrying out illegal and coercive evictions in Brgy. 128, Smokey Mountain,…

For nearly two years, Padma Joshi has been living with the same unanswered question—“When will my son come home?” Every day feels the same: she enters his room, stares at his neatly stacked books and folded clothes, and then sits…

Way Forward for Treaty Negotiations Left Unclear, Civil Society Stands with Countries Choosing People Over Politics    Geneva, Switzerland– At the close of the plastics treaty negotiations (INC-5.2), ambitious Member States held strong under immense pressure and a broken process, and…

It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…

Geneva, Switzerland– Demonstrating strong unity, Global South Member States and Civil Society called for ambitious, legally binding global measures to curb plastic production, in a media briefing on the closing day of the second part of the fifth session of…

Communities and advocates rally against policies that would lock Asia into polluting energy projects and deepen climate inequities   Mandaluyong City, Philippines – 14 August 2025 – Today, environmental advocates and community members gathered outside the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters…

This article examines supremacism as a transhistorical technology of power, breaking down its operating mechanisms, its institutional translation, and its consequences for human coexistence. It argues that supremacism, far from being a marginal phenomenon, is a recurring pattern that manifests…

On 10 August 2025, we gathered in Gimpo City to mark the 2nd International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in South Korea… organized and hosted by the Jumma Peoples Network-Korea, a cultural organization of the Bangladesh Jumma Indigenous peoples…

 In the contemporary era, the rapid transformation of the state into a corporatized entity has fundamentally altered the relationship between governments and citizens. The traditional notion of citizenship, rooted in rights, responsibilities, and collective welfare, is being replaced by a…