Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 481
A New Global Agenda on Sport for 2030
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug 17 (IPS) - Does sport need to change to better serve society? What can sport and development actors do better in the future? How can sport play a greater role in contributing to development and peace? Can we reimagine the role of sport? Can we resolve the conflict and contradictions inherent within sport?
Privatised Health Services Worsen Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (IPS) - Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now even more pronounced with the pandemic. Austerity programmes, by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, have forced countries to cut public spending, including health provisioning.
Palestine refugees face ‘dire’ humanitarian conditions amid ongoing clashes in southern Syria: UNRWA
- UN News
Some 30,000 Palestine refugees registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in south Syria have become increasingly vulnerable, following recent clashes in and around the Dera’a Governorate, the UN agency warned on Sunday.
UN experts urge Israel to ‘protect and encourage’ Palestine rights defenders
- UN News
UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts expressed deep concern on Friday over Israeli military interference in the work of a well-known, independent Palestinian child rights organization, in the occupied West Bank.
End ‘rampant’ police brutality, promote tolerance: UN human rights experts
- UN News
Expressing alarm over “rampant police brutality against peaceful protesters worldwide”, more than 40 UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday called for an end to the violence, urging Governments to promote dialogue, tolerance and diversity.
Afghanistan: UN chief following escalation in fighting ‘with deep concern’
- UN News
With Taliban fighters continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General is following events “with deep concern” said the UN Spokesperson on Thursday, including the battle for Herat and Kandahar, the country’s second and third largest cities.
Youth need ‘seat at the table’ to lead struggle for better future: Guterres
- UN News
Young people are on the “frontlines of the struggle to build a better future”, the UN chief said on Thursday, International Youth Day.
Spyware: Rights experts push for surveillance technology moratorium
- UN News
A group of UN-appointed experts on Thursday called for a moratorium on the sale of surveillance technology, warning against the danger of allowing the sector to operate as “a human rights-free zone.”
Proud of Being Able to Speak the Truth: Journalist Nidhi Razdan on her Cyber Attack
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Aug 12 (IPS) - Sania Farooqui is a journalist and filmmaker based out of New Delhi.Earlier in January, Indian journalist Nidhi Razdan found out she was a victim of one of the most sophisticated and elaborate cyber attacks. Razdan wrote in a piece that it was all an attempt to access her bank account details, personal data, emails, medical records, passport and access to all her devices, including computer and phone.
UNHCR alarmed over US ‘expulsion flights’ to southern Mexico
- UN News
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised concern on Wednesday over a new policy by the United States, using public health orders linked to COVID-19, to expel some asylum-seekers and migrants by flying them to southern Mexico.
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