Category: Human Rights

Geneva, 16 January 2023. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) prepared a “shadow report” about the Cambodian authorities’ numerous violations of economic, social, and cultural rights. FIDH submitted the report to the United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), ahead of Cambodia’s second periodic report under the International Covenant on […]

By Tony Gutiérrez, The Catholic Sun Following an African tradition in which community members bring baskets of food and other material goods to the altar during the offertory, student representatives from Catholic schools throughout the diocese carried donations of non-perishable foods to be donated to St. Josephine Bakhita Mission Parish’s food pantry during the annual […]

The walls of the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center echoed hope on Friday night, as voices from many faiths and races mingled in the singing of Jewish hymns and African American spirituals. There, community leaders for racial justice gathered for an interfaith Shabbat service to honor the shared memory of two civil rights leaders: Dr. Martin […]

Published: January 16, 2023 18:26:32 A prominent Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist known as a vocal critic of both the military and Islamist militants was shot dead on Monday at a court in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said. Abdul Latif Afridi, a former president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court bar association, was shot […]

A human skeleton was discovered Tuesday in an unused building on a University of California, Berkeley, campus, officials said. It’s unclear how many years the remains were in the shuttered building on the Clark Kerr Campus, which is a residential hall complex and event space that’s about a mile from the main campus, the university’s […]

Amnesty International said Wednesday that soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo should highlight human rights issues in Saudi Arabia during his time playing at Al Nassr. A press release from the human rights watchdog quotes Dana Ahmed, its Middle East researcher, saying, “Al-Nassr’s signing of Cristiano Ronaldo fits into a wider pattern of sportswashing in Saudi Arabia. […]

Human Rights Watch has called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Taliban-run Afghanistan from ICC membership for the gender-based discrimination policies the ruling regime pursues in the country. Minky Worden, the director of Human Right Watch said that the suspension of Afghanistan cricket from participating in international competitions should remain in place until […]

On Tuesday, a long-awaited trial of 24 human rights defenders charged over their role in helping to rescue migrants in distress at sea began in Lesvos in Greece. Trials like this are deeply concerning because they criminalize life-saving work and set a dangerous precedent. Indeed, there has already been a chilling effect, with human […]

Unity in Security Council essential, in face of Taliban rights violations against women and girls – UN Representative AKIPRESS.COM – The UN Security Council must be unified in opposing Taliban policies to erode the fundamental human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, the UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva said on Friday, UN […]

The harsh tone of Opinion Page letters and their vilification of Mayor Roxann Wedegartner and her decision not to re-appoint Greenfield Human Rights Commission (GHRC) Commissioner, Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, to another three-year term compelled me to educate myself about the GHRC. Upon completing my research, I had more questions than answers. Which of my “human rights” […]