Human Rights

By Maxine Lowy “Surely you exaggerate. How can it be that bad?” 1 In response to Chilean judges’ ostensible disbelief that torture had become routine after September 11, 1973, the day that has left the nation scarred 50 years later,…

The people were in slave-like situations in 131 municipalities in 23 Brazilian states. Rio de Janeiro. At least 532 people were rescued in Brazil from slave-like conditions in the country’s largest-ever operation against slave labour, officials said on Tuesday (5…

Silencing, denying and distorting events, a practice of great disloyalty. Fake news, what we know today as Fake News, has played its part, in the 1970s and later, in a constant attempt to falsify history and memory. In certain newspapers…

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…

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…

On 4 July 1976 in Algiers, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples was proclaimed. It was the result of a complex process that coincided with the emergence of many new nations in Africa and Asia, the fruit of…

The annual report on the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva and New York and in the field between 1 July 2022 and 1 March 2023 was released at the…

From the 23rd to the 25th of June the fifth Maghrebi Social Forum on migration is taking place in the city of Nador under the slogan “Never again Chinatown. For a Maghreb free of all hatred, xenophobia and racism”. The…

The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide has risen to a new record high, with a total of 533 journalists imprisoned worldwide, according to the 2022 annual report by Reporters Without Borders. A figure that reflects, on the one hand, the…

Gun violence has once again afflicted the US in several states. More than 17 people were gunned down and dozens injured in a spate during Memorial Day weekend. Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, and New Mexico were among the eight cities where…