Human Rights
South Africa’s foreign nationals displaced again
KwaZulu Natal- In South Africa’s a group of foreign nationals temporarily staying on Cato Ridge Farm known as ”Hope” in KwaZulu Natal province are in pain again. The agonies rose out the moment when fire broke out in their camps…
Greece becomes 26th European country to recognise same-sex partnerships
Pressenza republishes this press release by the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association on the news that Greece has passed legislation to allow same-sex partnerships. The concept of registered partnership had existed in Greece…
Indigenous Villagers Fight “Evil Spirit” of Hydropower Dam in Brazil
Human Wrongs Watch By Fabiana Frayssinet* SAWRÉ MUYBU, Brazil , 21 December 2015 (IPS) – At dusk on the Tapajós River, one of the main tributaries of the Amazon River in northern Brazil, the Mundurukú indigenous people gather to bathe…
Human beings sent back to war and poverty at the Greek border
I have been sent on a day trip to Idomeni on a mission with PRAKSIS NGO, just a metre away from the frontier of hope. The caravan of buses carrying people, who want to leave Greece, patiently waits at the…
“Our lives are ‘occupied’ by the colonialist power of Zionist Israel” – schoolteacher
Esam Sahori: teacher at a school next to Occupied Bethlehem By Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik e.V. An interview with Esam Sahori from Bethlehem, about the situation there, and at his school where he teaches. Thanks for reading and sharing! A special…
Global Forced Displacement for 2015 on Track to Break All Records, Topping 60 Million
Human Wrongs Watch Forced displacement this year is likely exceed all previous records, for the first time topping 60 million, meaning that one out of every 122 persons on Earth has been forced to flee their home, the United Nations…
Norway ratifies the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention – C29
Good news to share! After pressure from Walk Free supporters and other organisations, Norway has become the second country, after Niger, to ratify the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention (better known as C29).1 This is important since the adopted…
Every Two Seconds, a Baby Is Born in a Conflict Zone – “Can There Be a Worse Start in Life?”
Human Wrongs Watch More than 16 million babies in 2015 were born in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen or on perilous journeys to escape fighting, which translates to 1 in 8 of all births worldwide,…
A South Asian mechanism for human rights
A South Asian mechanism for human rights Basil Fernando I propose that the discussion on a South Asian mechanism for human rights should concentrate more on what such a mechanism could positively achieve, rather than on justifying why such a…
Burma’s [Myanmar’s] women and minorities then (colonial days) and now
War On Women And Minorities In Colonial And Post-Colonial Burma – Analysis Colonial Era Rudyard Kipling remarked in From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, “This is Burma and it will be quite unlike any other land you will know…
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