Category: Human Rights

NICOSIA Turkish Cyprus has registered its first-ever conviction for human trafficking after two Nigerians forced their schoolmates into prostitution. The case involved a Nigerian woman in her 20s brought to the island as a student with promises of “education and work,” Fezile Osum from Turkish Cyprus’ Human Rights Platform said. The victim “was forced into […]

Vietnam has recently adopted an Orange theme on its two flights to embark the International Day for eliminating the violence against women. This is the first collaboration between the national airline and UN Women Vietnam.   In this initiative flight attendants wore orange sashes and handed out orange flower pins and leaflets as part of […]

Feb. 24 will mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since the war began, the United Nations has verified more than 6,900 deaths of Ukrainian civilians. Over 7.9 million Ukrainian refugees are recorded across Europe. Ramifications from the Russian war dominate international politics and challenge existing international organizations. There is tragically no […]

Photo by Carlo Manalansan/Bulatlat By PAGHIMUTAD MANILA – Human rights group Karapatan-Negros condemned the killing of farmer Jose Gonzales who was earlier reported as missing. The group reported that on Jan. 8, unidentified men claiming to be members of the New People’s Army approached Marialyn Sabanal, daughter of Gonzales, and her husband. They were looking […]

Yet another international organisation has come up with a report alleging that the Narendra Modi government in India is discriminating against minorities, stifling dissent and suppressing free speech. In its recently released Word Report 2023, Human Rights Watch, self-proclaimed defenders of human rights, made these comments while asking the Western Powers to not shift supply […]

New Delhi: The normalisation of various state governments’ drive to demolish homes of Indian Muslims and low-income groups came under the scanner in the latest Human Rights Watch report released on Thursday, January 12. The US-based global human rights observer in its annual report detailing human rights abuses and concerns in around 100 countries took […]

American rights group, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), has asked the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a federal district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and several US citizens who live in Israel. JNF sued USCPR in 2019, alleging that the group is responsible for attacks […]

Justice ministry secretary of state Chin Malin (centre left) meets UN Human Rights Office deputy country representative Benjamin Moreau at the ministry on January 13. JUSTICE MINISTRY Ministry of Justice secretary of state Chin Malin met with Benjamin Moreau, deputy country representative of the UN Human Rights Office in Cambodia, on January 13 to discuss […]

Human Rights Watch report on Georgia The Human Rights Watch report on Georgia for 2022 has been published, and its picture of media freedom in Georgia is unfavorable, manifested in such things as attacks on journalists and the arrest of Nika Gvaramia, director of the main opposition channel Mtavari Arkhi. The organization is concerned about […]

SINGAPORE, Jan 14 — Local activist Alex Au yesterday (January 13) received a European prize for human rights, which was also given to 14 other awardees around the world for 2022. These include the women of Iran along with Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of Iran’s morality police led to a widespread show […]