Category: Human Rights

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Vice President Kamala Harris issued a call to action Sunday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision and lambasting bans on abortion in several states since constitutional protection for the procedure was removed by the Supreme Court last year. In a speech in Tallahassee, Florida, where state […]

Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will be held on June 2-8, 2023. This is already the 20th-anniversary festival. The focus will be on “understanding the prospects of the future”. “Last year was an extremely difficult challenge. We had to make a festival while we were losing people who were dear to our […]

Vice President Kamala Harris came to Tallahassee on the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling where she vowed that the Biden administration would continue to take steps to ensure a women’s right to access abortion despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to repeal it. Harris made her speech before a boisterous […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Family of missing mother Andrea Knabel says they’re in contact with Kentucky State Police again, after a new set of human remains found in Boyle County Friday night. Andrea Knabel was last seen in the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 2019, near a family member’s home in the Audubon Park […]

Shock For Zim Activists As Eswatini Human Rights Lawyer Is Shot Dead By A Correspondent- Zimbabwean activists have expressed shock following the assassination of Eswatini human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko, who was the Chairperson of the MultiStakeholder Forum (MSF). Maseko was allegedly shot dead at his home on Saturday 21 January in the evening. He […]

Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko has been shot dead outside his home in Mbabane. The eSwatini government said the country’s security forces have given assurances that they are already at work looking for the killers. Maseko chaired the Multi-Stakeholders Forum, a collaboration of political parties and civil society groups working to amplify the calls for […]

VATICAN CITY, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday called for an end to violence in Peru, where nearly 50 people have been killed during anti-government demonstrations in the past few weeks. “No to violence, regardless of where it originates. No more deaths,” the Argentine pope said in Spanish at his weekly address to […]

Human Rights lawyer, Thulani Maseko has been shot dead at his home in Luyengo, south of Mbabane in Eswatini. His widow, Tanele Maseko says he was shot in the presence of his family last night. His death comes a few hours after King Mswati warned those calling for democracy in the kingdom that his mercenaries […]

On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision ruled that the U.S. Constitution supports the right to have an abortion.  The case, Jane Roe v. Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County, Texas, would come to be known as a landmark decision. The plaintiff’s name was a pseudonym Norma Leah Nelson […]

Vietnam was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the 2023-2025 tenure on October 11, 2022  at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. It was the only candidate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and also the only Asian candidate of the Francophone community. Thailand’s […]