Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 463
Egypt Must End State Oppression of Women and Girls
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct 27 (IPS) - The fate of Egyptian women and girls delicately hangs in the balance as the country continues to have one of the worst records in the world for gender equality. With oppression often state-sanctioned, Egyptian women face a daily struggle against sexual harassment and other violations of their basic human rights, including institutionalised violence.
Women under fire in Belarus, activists tortured and exiled – UN expert
- UN News
While women in Belarus overall are being denied rights and freedoms, female political activists are subjected to enforced disappearances, torture, ill-treatment and exile, an independent UN human rights expert told the General Assembly on Tuesday.
UN Chief: ‘We need to make lying wrong again’, curb hate speech
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General warned on Tuesday that “hatred takes root in the soil of ignorance” of historical facts, science, and the human qualities which “bind all people together.”
UN experts condemn Israel’s designation of Palestine rights defenders as terrorist organisations
- UN News
Independent UN human rights experts on Monday strongly condemned the decision by the Israeli Minister of Defence to designate six Palestinian human rights and civil society groups as terrorist organisations.
Disarmament Week? But Hundreds of Nukes Can Be Launched Within Minutes
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Oct 25 (IPS) - Hadn't it been so worrisome, it would be ironic to hear that humanity is to mark the World Disarmament Week (Oct 24 to 30, 2021) barely six months after learning that the world’s biggest military powers had spent last year some 2,000,000,000,000 US dollars on killing machines.
UN rights experts condemn US expulsion of Haitian migrants and refugees
- UN News
A group of UN human rights experts have condemned the United States of America’s recent and ongoing systematic mass deportation of Haitian migrants and refugees, declaring them a violation of international law.
World's Deadliest Malaria Parasite Dominance in Africa Could Be Over Experts
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 25 (IPS) - One morning in 2016, Lillian Nekesa's 3-year-old woke up with flu-like classic symptoms of malaria. This was not Kevin's first encounter with the killer disease.
No safe harbour: lifting the lid on a misunderstood trafficking crime
- UN News
The crime of harbouring, in which victims of human trafficking are accommodated or forced to stay in a specific location, is not universally understood by courts around the world. A new UN study aims to address that issue, and improve protection for victims.
For Girls, the Biggest Danger of Sexual Violence Lurks at Home
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 22 (IPS) - "During the pandemic, sexual violence against girls has grown because they have been confined with their abusers. If the home is not a safe place for them, what is then, the streets?" Mía Calderón, a young activist for sexual and reproductive rights in the capital of Peru, remarks with indignation.
Artist Asks Uncomfortable Questions at Paris Fair
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Oct 22 (IPS) - How does injustice make you feel? Do you see yourself as a perpetrator, or as a victim? Is there any such thing as neutrality? These are some of the questions that Dorian Sari asks through artwork, which includes blurry photographs with violently shattered glass frames.
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