Category: Human Rights

This piece appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! On July 4, Chile awarded its prestigious 2022 National Prize in Human Rights to Elizabeth Andrade Huaringa, a Peruvian Afrodescendant mestiza migrant woman and grassroots community leader. The first migrant in history to receive the […]

MEXICO CITY (WCSC) – The Mexican National Guard says it discovered four skulls, apparently of human origin, that were scheduled to be sent to South Carolina this week. The package was registered to a courier and parcel company and guardsmen made the discovery inside the Querétaro Intercontinental Airport, where they are authorized to carry out […]

Saudi Arabia and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Monday signed an agreement to build a legal and institutional framework to combat human trafficking crimes. President of the Saudi Arabia Human Rights Commission (HRC) Dr. Hala bint Mazyad bin Mohammed Al-Tuwaijri stressed that the Kingdom has strived to build a legal and institutional […]

The World Cup may be over, but gamblers across the country are continuing to try their luck with Britain’s bookies. For the majority of those putting a stake on their favourite team or a lucky horse, the betting transaction goes off without a hitch.  But what happens when a bookmaker refuses to pay out? And […]

BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WDTV/Gray News) – Authorities are investigating after remains of a human fetus were found behind a building in West Virginia. Chief Matt Gregory of the Buckhannon Police Department said the remains were found Monday around 8 p.m., according to a news release from the BPD. Officers received a call regarding the fetus being […]

Supreme Court judge Justice B.V. Nagarathna on Tuesday said in India, human dignity is not only a value but a right that is enforceable and emphasised that public functionaries, celebrities, and other persons of influence owe a duty to the citizenry at large to be more responsible and restrained in their speech. A five-judge constitution […]

UPDATED at 9:23 a.m. EST on 12-2-2022. Legislation introduced in Congress this week would provide new tools to hold Beijing accountable for its persecution of ethnic Uyghurs, including through the appointment of an expert on human rights violations in northwest China’s Xinjiang region. The Uyghur Policy Act of 2021, which was introduced by U.S. Representative […]

PALERMO – “We call for the commitment of your governments to launch a process to declare the Mediterranean a sea of peace, which unifies peoples and their cultures. A demilitarized, denuclearized and neutral Mediterranean”. This is the request contained in the open letter send on 1 January, World Peace Day, to the governments of the […]

CIVICUS speaks with Prudence Mutiso, Legal Adviser at the Center for Reproductive Rights-Africa about the Tanzanian government’s policy on pregnant and married girls in schools. Founded in 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organisation of lawyers and advocates seeking to ensure the protection of reproductive rights as basic human rights […]

Officials from Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) are calling on the government to table the Older Persons Bill in the next parliamentary session to protect senior citizens who are being killed on suspicion of witchcraft. CHRR Executive Director Michael Kaiyatsa said the only way elderly people can be protected is to have a […]