Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 429
Sri Lanka: UN rights chief welcomes reform but concerns remain
- UN News
Sri Lanka has taken steps towards legal, institutional and security sector reforms, but more action is still needed, according to a report issued on Friday by the UN human rights office, OHCHR, which examines developments over the past year.
Women building a sustainable future: the Kenyan engineer fighting for equality
- UN News
Norah Magero, a Mechanical Engineer and Renewable Energy Expert from Kenya, is helping communities adapt to the changing climate, in the face of gender discrimination.
Pandemic Hit Domestic Workers Especially Hard in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 24 (IPS) - "Woman, poor, black and illiterate" - most domestic workers suffer quadruple discrimination in Brazil, which made them more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic, says one of their leaders, Gloria Rejane Santos.
Women's Voices Raised Against Hate in India
- Inter Press Service
Lucknow, Feb 24 (IPS) - More and more women from different walks of life and corners of the world are raising their voices against the treatment of minorities in India today.
France violated rights of French children detained in Syrian camps
- UN News
France has violated the rights of French children detained for years in camps in northeast Syria by failing to repatriate them, the UN Child Rights Committee said in findings issued on Thursday.
Decapitating Terrorist Organisations Won't End Terror
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Jordan, Feb 24 (IPS) - Killing terrorist organisations’ leaders is no effective way of fighting terrorism — as it’s political and economic crises on which terrorism feeds.
Tension over Migration Awaits New President and New Constitution in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 23 (IPS) - The failure of Chile's immigration policy, with its toll of deaths, xenophobic sentiments but also shows of solidarity, will be a pressing matter for the incoming administration of Gabriel Boric, who takes office on Mar. 11, and for the drafters of the new constitution, who will include the issue in the text that is to be ready in July.
Development finance institutions must include in investments, ‘right to remedy’
- UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights launched on Wednesday a ground-breaking new report for development finance institutions to ensure that the projects they support do not harm people, and make effective remedy is readily available.
Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Feb 23 (IPS) - Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded “With God on Our Side.” You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs:
Ukraine: What’s Really Behind Putin’s Deployment of ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops? Experts Explain
- Inter Press Service
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom, Feb 22 (IPS) - Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the independence of the two breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk followed a surreal live broadcast of a security council meeting in the Kremlin. Sitting facing the 13-member council, Putin cajoled and argued as, one by one, his most senior officials – including Dmitry Medvedev, a former president and prime minister, and the country’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov – took to the lectern to provide their boss with “reasons” for the formal recognition of the two republics in the country’s east as independent states.
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