Niger: IOM calls for humanitarian corridor to help stranded migrants
The UN migration agency (IOM) called for the setting up of a humanitarian corridor in Niger to enable voluntary returns of stranded migrants
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Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, international uproar about Putin’s missile strike (II)
Bitter Winter (09.01.2023) – 23 July 2023 was a Black Sunday for the city of Odesa and for Ukraine. When Ukrainians and the rest of the world woke up, they discovered with horror and anger that the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Orthodox Transfiguration Cathedral had been…
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Psychiatry and Pharmacocrazy, How Mental Illness Diagnoses Are Inflated
Psychiatry – A recent article entitled “The shady business of mental illness: how the consumption of psychotropic drugs in the US has skyrocketed (El turbio negocio de las enfermedades mentales: así se disparó el consumo de psicofármacos en EEUU)” published in EL MUNDO by Daniel Arjona…
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Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists
A group of UN independent human rights experts on Wednesday urged the Government of Mexico to investigate and prosecute those who attack and kill women activists searching for their missing relatives.
“We are outraged that those searching for forcibly disappeared family members and loved…
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Moscow’s deportation of 20,000 Ukrainian children to Russia, says a report filed with the UN
On the eve of the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers filed a report taking stock about the deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia from the territories occupied since the beginning of the war.
According to the…
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109-year-old Tulsa Massacre survivor reflects on legacy of slavery in UN visit
Viola Fletcher was just seven years old when she was forcibly displaced from her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, by an armed mob which destroyed the predominantly Black enclave of Greenwood, killing hundreds of residents.
Together with her grandson, Ike Howard, the 109-year-old Ms. Fletcher…
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2 minutes for believers of all faiths in prison in Russia
At the end of July, the Court of Cassation upheld the 2 years and 6 months in prison sentence against Aleksandr Nikolaev.
The court had found him guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization, the religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In fact, he…
‘Increasing militarisation’ of DPR Korea fuelling rise in human rights violations
Briefing the UN Security Council, Volker Türk ran through a long list of rights abuses, saying that many “stem directly from, or support, the increasing militarisation of the DPRK.”
His argument was reinforced by the UN independent human rights expert Elizabeth Salmón who told ambassadors…
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UN rights chief calls for immediate restoration of constitutional order in Niger
The UN rights chief expressed grave concerns for the people of Niger. “The people have already been through so much hardship over the years. Now, the very people who they elected to build a pathway to end their destitution have been removed by force,” he said.
The message comes as the UN…
Hate speech and intolerance: the case of a philosophical yoga school (II)
In the first article of this series, I discussed the cooperation between the special anti-trafficking Argentinian agency PROTEX and the professional anti-cultist Pablo Salum.
This article was originally published by Bitter Winter under the title “Anti-Cult Repression in Argentina 2….
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UN calls for urgent action against human trafficking
In his message for the Day, UN chief António Guterres called human trafficking “a heinous violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.” He said that this crime preys on vulnerability and thrives in times of conflict and instability, with more and more people targeted…
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Heatwave threat impacts half of all children in Europe and Central Asia
This is expected to rise to all children in 2050, according to Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Regional Director Europe and Central Asia.
She said countries there are feeling the heat of the climate crisis, and children’s health and well-being are suffering the most
“The multitude of negative…
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Cambodia: UN rights chief regrets ‘severely restricted’ poll and opposition clampdown
In a news release issued by his Office, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, denounced “constant shrinkage” in Cambodia’s democratic space in recent years, which he said is undermining citizen’s fundamental freedoms and their right to participate in the public square.
In…
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Türk calls on Israeli Government to ‘heed the calls of the people’ over judicial reform
Volker Türk said he had been “following developments closely” in Israel, where parliamentarians supporting the hard-line nationalist Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu passed a bill on Monday which in effect strips the Supreme Court of its power to block Government decisions….
During visit to Greece, UN official calls for enhanced refugee protection
During the visit, Ms. Triggs mentioned that one of the worst shipwrecks in the Mediterranean happened just over a month ago.
Protecting refugee rights
“The Pylos tragedy and the other devastating tragedies in the Mediterranean underscore the primacy of saving lives and protecting the…
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Russia urged to free opposition leader Kara-Murza amid failing health
Mr. Kara-Murza, 41, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine, was arbitrarily arrested in Moscow on 11 April 2022.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison a year later on charges of “high treason”, “disseminating false information about the army of the Russian…
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Sound of Freedom, Liberating Innocence: A Heroic Journey Against Sex Trafficking
“Sound of Freedom” is a 2023 movie based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent who quits his job to rescue children from global sex traffickers [6]. The film depicts Ballard’s journey from federal agent to founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a non-profit…
Des enfants séparés de force de leurs mères à Al Hol en Syrie, avertit un expert des droits de l’homme
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies sur la promotion et la protection des droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales dans la lutte antiterroriste, est la première experte indépendante des droits à avoir accès aux tristement célèbres installations d’Al Hol et d’Al Raj, ainsi qu’à d’autres lieux de détention. Après elle…
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Libye. Des experts en droits dénoncent une politique de voyage discriminatoire
En vertu de la politique, toutes les femmes et les filles sont tenues de remplir un formulaire détaillé fournissant des informations personnelles, les raisons et les antécédents de voyage sans tuteur masculin. Ceux qui refusent de remplir ou de soumettre le formulaire se voient refuser la sortie. “Non seulement cette politique est discriminatoire, mais elle…
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Se anuncian los ganadores del Premio de Derechos Humanos de la ONU 2023
Establecido por la Asamblea General en 1966, el Premio se entregó por primera vez en 1968 en lo que ahora es el Día de los Derechos Humanos, el 10 de diciembre, y se otorga cada cinco años por logros en el campo de los derechos humanos. Los destinatarios anteriores han incluido a Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Dr….
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