Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 431
Halt all retaliation attacks against Indian journalist Rana Ayyub – UN experts
- UN News
UN-appointed independent rights experts issued a statement on Monday calling on India to end relentless misogynistic and sectarian attacks against an investigative journalist.
Stop violence at European borders and protect refugees – UNHCR
- UN News
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged on Monday for greater protection for refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe.
Protect linguistic diversity on International Mother Language Day
- UN News
The head of the UN’s educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, has called for defending linguistic and cultural diversity in her message to mark International Mother Language Day on Monday.
First Person : I don’t want to die in the body of a man
- UN News
A transgender woman in Haiti has said she does not want to die in a man's body, and hopes to leave her native country to fulfill her dream of transitioning from being a man to a woman. Semi Alisha Fermond works with transgender people at Kay Trans Ayiti (the Creole name for Trans House Haiti) and is an activist with the UNDP and UNAIDS-supported organization Community Action for the Integration of Vulnerable Haitians (ACIFVH).
Women building a sustainable future: fighting back the desert, amid Niger’s refugee and climate crises
- UN News
Internal displacement, regional instability, and climate change have created a refugee crisis in Niger, but an initiative in the town of Ouallam is showing how different communities can work together to survive, and improve the local environment.
Students go back to Haitian school three years after gang attack
- UN News
Students have returned to the Lycée National de La Saline after it was closed due to gang violence.
The ongoing fight against child marriage and ‘bride kidnapping’ in Kyrgyzstan
- UN News
Although child marriage and “bride kidnapping” are illegal in Kyrgyzstan, both practices still exist in parts of the country. An initiative from a UN-backed programme is finally leading to a change in attitudes, and a decline in these harmful practices.
Training offers a way out of poverty for young victims of Colombian conflict
- UN News
Camilo Vergara is one of hundreds of young Colombians benefiting from a UN programme aimed at pulling victims of the country’s former conflict out of poverty, and into stable employment.
One UN human rights expert’s fight to eliminate ‘conversion therapies’
- UN News
Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights violations, two billion people are being discriminated against on a daily basis – a third of the world's population.
Effects of colonialism ‘still being felt to this day’
- UN News
The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, Chef de Cabinet Courtenay Rattray told the Special Committee on Decolonization on Friday.
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