Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 427
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 02 (IPS) - This will be the second International Women’s Day since the brutal coup erupted in Myanmar – and women remain fiercely in the lead in demanding justice and peace in the streets and behind closed doors.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Collective Solutions to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 02 (IPS) - The devastating effects of climate change continue to disproportionately affect women and girls in the poorest regions, who have contributed the least to global warming.
Ukraine crisis: UN agencies support rising tide of refugees
- UN News
The number of people fleeing the Russian onslaught in Ukraine surpassed 874,000 as of Wednesday morning New York time, data from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has revealed.
Protect the defenders of the planet, UN rights chief urges
- UN News
The world must be made a safer place for people working to protect the planet, who sometimes pay with their own lives for their activism, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday.
Indonesia: Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans, rights experts report
- UN News
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on Tuesday, citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement.
Scrap harmful laws that increase discrimination, UNAIDS urges
- UN News
Everyone has the right to live a healthy, full, and productive life with dignity, regardless of their HIV or other medical status, the UN agency leading the fight against HIV/AIDS said on Tuesday, Zero Discrimination Day.
Protecting Workers & Enabling a Green Recovery from COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 01 (IPS) - 2022 is a decisive year for all of us as recovery prospects remain highly uncertain.
Global human development has witnessed a decline for the first time since the measurement began in 1990. As UNDP’s new Special Report on Human Security also reveals, 6 in 7 people worldwide are plagued by feelings of insecurity.
South Sudan: Condemnation for attempted ambush on food convoy
- UN News
A peacekeeper is in stable condition a day after being shot during an attempted ambush on a UN convoy in South Sudan, the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, and the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Tuesday.
Before It Kills, War Whispers
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 01 (IPS) - A small yellow puppet hangs from the butt of a gun. The eyes and shorts of the figure that children love are just traces of faded black.
"It's a detail, but it tells what the war is."
Human rights ‘inescapable and powerful’: Guterres
- UN News
The answers to some of the world’s most pressing problems are rooted in human rights, UN Secretary-General António Guterres affirmed on Monday.
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