Global IssuesNews headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 308
Global Progress Against Child Labour ‘Ground to a Halt’ - UN Report
- Inter Press Service
NEW DEHLI, Jun 10 (IPS) - Malleshwar Rao, 27, spent his early years as a child labourer in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Soon after finishing school at a local ashram, where the children of poor parents, sex workers and orphans studied, the 9-year-old would rush to a local construction site to join his parents who would be toiling in the harsh tropical sun to construct buildings as daily wage earners. The supervisor would assign Rao simpler tasks and his extra income would help his parents feed him and his younger brother.
Child labour figure rises to 160 million, as COVID puts many more at risk
- UN News
For the first time in two decades, the number of children being put to work has risen – to 160 million worldwide, representing an increase of 8.4 million over four years – while millions of other are at risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new UN report launched on Thursday.
Outgoing ICC Prosecutor urges Security Council to keep focus on justice in Darfur
- UN News
The international community must stay focused on achieving justice and peace for the people of Darfur, the outgoing Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Nigerias Twitter Ban Is Part of a Larger Attack on Civil Society
- Inter Press Service
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 09 (IPS) - Four years ago, Omoregie* and his friends were arrested without cause and taken into custody. When they got to the station, Omoregie watched as the police began to beat his friends. Afraid, he began to discreetly tweet about the attacks as they took place.
Scream of the World: Volcanos and Earthquakes
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) - In February the killing of the Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, in the vicinity of the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, did for a short while put the global spotlight on this troubled area, where warfare, poverty and general insecurity generate immense human suffering.
UN experts to G7: Production of safe COVID-19 vaccines must outweigh profit
- UN News
A group of UN independent human rights experts called on Wednesday for the leaders of the world’s largest economies to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for people in the Global South, urging them not to allow the profit motive to undermine global health and equity.
‘Mass deaths’ alert in Myanmar as 100,000 flee junta’s heavy weapons
- UN News
In Myanmar, international action is needed urgently to prevent “mass deaths” there, after civilians fled attacks by so-called “junta bombs”, a top independent UN rights expert has warned.
UN court upholds Ratko Mladić convictions and life sentence
- UN News
A UN court on Tuesday upheld the life sentence imposed on former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladić for his role in the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
G7 Summit: Time to put Women Front & Centre of the Global Economic Recovery
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA/LONDON, Jun 08 (IPS) - The leaders of the G7 group of nations will soon gather in Cornwall, United Kingdom, (June 11-13) to devise plans to ‘build back better’ from the COVID-19 pandemic. The summit takes place in the wake of a crisis that has both revealed and further exacerbated existing economic and social inequalities, including gender inequalities.
Death toll of Burkina Faso Attack Reaches 160
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Jun 07 (IPS) - On the night of Friday 4th June, a group of unidentified armed men stormed the village of Solhan in the north of Burkina Faso, shooting indiscriminately, looting the market and burning homes. A report by RFI, the French radio station said there could have been as many as 200 attackers by some accounts of survivors.
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