Human Rights

The three glasses are already close together, ready to touch; we pause for a moment, look each other in the eyes, and together decide to proceed with the toast, defying superstitious precautions and well-established fears. Laura reminds us that if…

Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has ordered the death penalty for the ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a case involving crimes against humanity committed during the July 2024 mass uprising. This is the first case related to crimes against…

Life is being destroyed. The violence of power is at its peak. The American system, still the most powerful in the world today, has decided to reward the work of a single entrepreneur (Musk) with $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars) for…

We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 12 to 16 November 2025, declare to the peoples of the world what we have accumulated in struggles, debates, studies, exchanges of experiences, cultural activities and…

Thousands of NYPD records secured by the rights groups detail expansive and unlawful surveillance of protesters, and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities. Records obtained by Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy…

Following its initial approval in the Knesset, the Israeli bill enabling the death penalty for cases of “terrorism” has triggered a global crisis. This initiative, promoted by the ultranationalist Jewish Power party and backed by Netanyahu’s government, has not only…

Leonid Pshenichov, a 70-year-old biologist, has been arrested by the Kremlin for “undermining Russia’s industrial trawling for krill in Antarctica.” He’s been accused of High Treason. He was arrested while preparing to travel to Australia to attend a conference on…

Ban on mercury in dental fillings is a positive step. But small-scale gold mining will remain the largest global contributor to mercury pollution without urgent action. 07 November 2025. Geneva. Despite the growing crisis of mercury contamination in the Amazon,…

Geneva (Switzerland), 5 November 2025 – A large part of the world has yet to adopt explicit legislation to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI) youth in schools against bullying, ILGA World said today. New data published on the ILGA…

by Maxine Lowy. Journalist, editor and translator.   “Let’s go to La Toma!” “Youth and glory, La Victoria!” Twenty children alongside their parents and preschool educators chant and sing as they parade through the streets of their neighborhood on the…