Category: Human Rights

Following Ireland’s request for assistance relating to power outages caused by the record-breaking storm Éowyn, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism has been activated. The EU has immediately mobilised 13 power generators from the Commission’s own strategic reserve, rescEU, hosted in Poland. 4 power generators offered by Denmark via the Mechanism will also soon reach Ireland […]

Mohamed Bazoum, the former president of Niger, has now been held in detention for over 550 days by the military junta that took control of the country following a coup in 2023. His legal team, including prominent American human rights lawyer Reed Brody, has launched an international campaign demanding his release, describing his prolonged detention […]

In January 2025, legal charges were filed against 5,000 workers in Bangladesh who had staged protests over the closure of 16 Beximco factories, which resulted in over 40,000 workers being laid off and left without months of owed wages. The protests erupted in response to the company’s decision to shut down the factories in December […]

Migrant workers continue to face widespread exploitation and wage theft, often in the form of unpaid wages, poor working conditions, and retaliation for asserting their rights. This vulnerable workforce, essential to global industries, is often denied basic labor rights, contributing to a cycle of poverty and insecurity. In New York, a recent investigation uncovered labor […]

A new book on their work underlines the chaos of the time, and the difficult decisions they had to make, knowing that for every person they saved, many more would be killed. Saints and Liars, by Debórah Dwork, the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at […]

Ahead of Egypt’s scheduled review by the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on January 30, 2025, human rights organizations have raised alarm over the arbitrary detention and harassment of activists. Amnesty International reported on January 29 that Egyptian authorities have been investigating and detaining several high-profile critics, including politicians and activists, in a clear […]

By Yurii Sheliazenkho Jehovah’s Witness Volodymyr Baranov was placed to pre-trial detention by Darnitsky District Court of Kyiv, judge Olha Prosalova. The court decided he could be released on the bail 180 000 UAH. It was not a public hearing, I was denied in entering the hearings despite I provided my credentials as a journalist […]

Students in the French overseas department of Mayotte are returning to school this week, a month-and-a-half after a devastating cyclone leveled homes and infrastructure on the Indian Ocean islands. Mayotte, a former French colony, was already the poorest part of France and on nearly every social indicator, one of the worst-off parts of the European Union. Reconstruction […]

HELSINKI/WARSAW, 27 January 2025 – This year we mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the living memory of the Holocaust fades, we have a profound responsibility to commemorate the victims of this atrocity and to understand its ongoing meaning and consequences, the OSCE said on today’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Anti-Semitism […]

The European Commission today announced new humanitarian support for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with an initial amount of €60 million for 2025. Following the latest developments in the East of the country, the European Union stands ready to boost emergency assistance, particularly for the newly displaced populations in and around Goma. The […]