Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 436
Increased Investment Critical to End Female Genital Mutilation as COVID-19 Rages On
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 04 (IPS) - “Multiple overlapping crises are putting millions of girls at increased risk of female genital mutilation. “Countries already grappling with rising poverty, inequality and conflict are seeing the COVID-19 pandemic further threaten years of progress to end the practice, creating a crisis within a crisis for the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized girls.
End Leprosy Discrimination Now, For the Sake of Our Children
- Inter Press Service
Abuja, Nigeria, Feb 03 (IPS) - Seidu Ishaiku lives in the hope that his children will succeed. He and his family live with about 300 other residents in the Alheri leprosy colony outside Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
Pandemic threatens push to end Female Genital Mutilation
- UN News
The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out female genital mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the International Day to eliminate the harmful practice.
A Clash of Alms
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 03 (IPS) - Driven by unprecedented hardship to pass round the begging bowl, Sri Lanka has become the centre of a tussle between Asia’s two superpowers.
Finding homes for more than a million displaced Ukrainians
- UN News
Around 1.5 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes since fighting in the far east of the country began in 2014. The UN and other humanitarian organizations are supporting those who have been displaced, as they try to adjust to their new lives.
Downstream from Del Rio
- Inter Press Service
SEATTLE, USA, Feb 01 (IPS) - The specters of slave patrols and Ku Klux Klan night riders haunted the viral videos. They showed cowboy-hatted Border Patrol agents on horseback insulting and threatening Haitian families with children as they crossed the Rio Grande into Texas. The outrage reverberated around the world and inside the Beltway. But the story soon disappeared from the news cycle.
Following DR Congo murder trial, UN calls for death penalty moratorium to remain
- UN News
Following a verdict in the case of the brutal murder of two its experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) nearly five years ago, the UN on Tuesday urged authorities to uphold their moratorium on the death penalty.
Six women’s rights activists still missing in Afghanistan
- UN News
The UN human rights office OHCHR, has said it is very alarmed over the continued disappearance of six people who were abducted in the Afghan capital Kabul, in connection with recent women’s rights protests.
Myanmar: ‘Meaningful action’ needed to stop the slaughter
- UN News
Marking the first anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the independent UN expert monitoring the country implored States on Tuesday to take more robust action, reiterating his call for an arms embargo to stop the killing of innocent people.
Myanmar's Military Junta is Killing Press Freedom
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Feb 01 (IPS) - One year since a democracy-suspending coup, press freedom is dying in Myanmar. A military campaign of intimidation, censorship, arrests, and detentions of journalists has more recently graduated to outright killing, an escalation of repression that aims ultimately to stop independent media reporting on the junta’s crimes and abuses.
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