Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 393
Hate speech ‘dehumanizes individuals and communities’: Guterres
- UN News
Hate speech incites violence, undermines diversity and social cohesion and “threatens the common values and principles that bind us together,” the UN chief said in his message for the first-ever International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
UN expert urges UK to halt transfer of asylum seekers to Rwanda
- UN News
A UN human rights expert on Friday urged the United Kingdom to halt its controversial policy of transferring some asylum seekers to Rwanda and expressed serious concern that the two country’s asylum partnership arrangement violates international law, and risks causing irreparable harm to those seeking international protection.
Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’
- UN News
Sexual violence has become a brutal tactic of warfare and repression that “terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities,” the UN chief said on Friday.
Countering Hate Speech Through Media: A Young Caribbean Woman's Perspective
- Inter Press Service
MONA, Jamaica, Jun 17 (IPS) - Hate speech is a phenomenon that can be defined as threatening speech or writing expressing prejudice towards a specific group, primarily based on race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Taliban: The Return of Misogynistic Gynophobes in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Jun 17 (IPS) - Gynophobia is defined as an intense and irrational fear of women or hatred of women, it may be characterized as a form of specific phobias, which involves a fear that is centered on a specific trigger or situation, which in the case of gynophobia is women.
A record 37 million children displaced worldwide: UNICEF
- UN News
Conflict, violence and other crises left a record 36.5 million children displaced from their homes by the end of last year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates – the highest number recorded since the Second World War, the agency said on Friday.
Bilingual Intercultural Education, an Endangered Indigenous Right in Peru
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Jun 16 (IPS) - "I always express myself in Quechua and I don't feel I’m less of a person," said Elías Ccollatupa, 47, who has been a bilingual intercultural teacher for more than two decades in the Chinchaypujio district, one of the nine that make up the province of Anta, in the department of Cuzco, in the southern Andean region of Peru.
Amid ‘inhumane’ conditions, Bachelet urges Nicaragua to release all detainees
- UN News
The human rights situation in Nicaragua has continued to decline over the past three months, with detainees being held in appalling conditions, civic space shrinking, and an “unprecedented” rise in people fleeing the country, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday.
More than 100 million now forcibly displaced: UNHCR report
- UN News
A staggering 100 million people have now been forced to flee their homes globally, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday, highlighting worldwide food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine and other emergencies from Africa to Afghanistan as leading causes.
Afghanistan facing ‘the darkest moments’ in a generation
- UN News
The Afghanistan people are experiencing some of “the darkest moments” in a generation the UN human rights chief told Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
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