Human Rights

Africa is back in the news and has become an area of high international tension. The memory of the Libyan war and the destruction of that country still lingers in the minds of its neighbours. The coup d’état in Niger…

Emigrating was an agonising decision for Cuban Ana Iraida. She left behind family and friends; in her backpack she carried many aspirations, but also the fear of being harassed on the journey to the United States. “My salary and that…

Recently (29 July 2023), US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, on a visit to Australia, rejected the call by his Australian counterpart to put an end to the U.S.’s judicial persecution of Julian Assange. Blinken justified his refusal by saying…

Following the denial of political asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the Belarusian peace builder and human rights defender Olga Karatch (Volha Karach), the international campaign #protection4olga has just been launched to demand protection and asylum for the director of…

Saif Ullah Rodeni resides in Sorab Quetta and serves as a policeman. He was forcibly abducted by Pakistani law enforcement agencies on 22 November2013, while en route to his duty. His sister Farzana Rodeni attempted to file a First Information…

On the 26th August, The Gaza Swimming Carnival shall be celebrated on the beaches of Gaza. On the same day, people at more than two dozen locations all over the world will be taking part in a swim in solidarity…

The Colombian Campaign against Mines denounced that during the past weekend, 7 victims of antipersonnel mines were registered in the department of Nariño, in the south of Colombia. “The use of anti-personnel mines is an attack against the communities of…

Ten Colombian departments have signed Regional Pacts for the Search for Disappeared Persons in order to work together to find the country’s disappeared. Antioquia, one of the departments most affected by this phenomenon, was one of the first to adopt…

Bulgaria, per tutti i morti di frontiera.   At about 12 o’clock, the number of the collective receives the signalation of the body of a 30-year-old Syrian boy, H., who died during a game attempt near route 79. We have the…

“No to extradition, Freedom to Julian Assange!” is an international letter delivery event by a group of Argentinean activists to the UK ambassador, coordinated by “Free Assange Argentina” and “Free Assange Wave” in cooperation with the Nordic collective www.setjulianfree.org. On…