Human Rights

Since coming to power in Afghanistan two years ago, the Taliban have banned more than 1.1 million young girls from secondary and university education. By Leonardo Buitrago The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday announced its decision to support clandestine schools…

With lots of music and interesting actors, Zug der Liebe e.V. (Train of Love, registered association) will start a large-scale demonstration march through the city of Berlin on August 26 at 1 p.m. at Mauerpark. The motto: More love for…

It promised to be the most defining, innovative and transformative protocol on African women’s rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its scope and unique in its comprehensive nature, covering issues such as HIV/AIDS, widows’ rights and access to property…

The Third Malón of Peace remains in the city of Buenos Aires with a vigil in front of the Supreme Court, where they denounce the irregularities of the constitutional reform in Jujuy. Verónica Chávez and Liliana López, indigenous women, stand…

The Saharawi journalist, Mohamed Lamin Hadi, detained in Tifelt 2, who was sentenced to 25 years and 6 years in solitary confinement, has started a new hunger strike because of cruel treatment and medical negligence which threaten his life. His…

With the slogan #AbrazoAlAgua12A, next Saturday 12 August at 12 noon, more than 80 human chains will take place around aquatic ecosystems, all of them endangered by human predation. This action is organised by collectives grouped in the initiative www.abrazoalagua.org…

Ecuador is living days of shock and confusion after the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in the capital on 9 August, just half a week before the general elections called by President Guillermo Lasso, who will leave office two…

Dad Shah Shashani is a resident of Greshag Khuzdar and was forcibly abducted last night in front of his family in Hawksbay, Karachi by CTD[1]. As of now, his whereabouts remain unknown. Dad Shah Shashani is a student by profession…

On August 8th, President of the Republic of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan sent an urgent appeal to the international community to take measures to prevent the genocide of the Artsakh people and to lift the siege. The video of the appeal…

By Maxine Lowy Jaroslavsky* A man strolled his dog again, the laughter of another resonated as it always had and the smile of a young women in a mini-skirt beamed in the chilly, rainy morning. These were three of 119…