Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 593
Internal Displacement “Deserves Visibility”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - More people are displaced inside their own countries than ever before, and only higher figures can be expected without urgent long-term action, a new report found.
The Age of the Internet Calls for Younger Leaders
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, May 10 (IPS) - Days before Algeria's 82-year-old strongman president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted from power, the country made one last ditch attempt to keep control: it shut down the internet.
Rise of Right-wing Nationalism Undermines Human Rights Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (IPS) - The rise of right-wing nationalism and the proliferation of authoritarian governments have undermined human rights in several countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
An Urgent Need to Advance Peace
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, May 10 (IPS) - Dr Marina Caparini is a Senior Researcher and Director of the Governance and Society Programme at SIPRI. Her research focuses on peacebuilding and the nexus between security and development.
Let us be blunt: the world is in crisis. Peace, human rights, our planetary ecosystem, and our systems of conflict management and global governance are under enormous strain.
As Fathers Die, Kashmir's Children Become Breadwinners
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India-administered Jammu and Kashmir, May 09 (IPS) - This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
Mubeen Ahmad was nine years old when his mother sold him into service to a mechanic for the petty sum of few thousand Indian rupees. His mother had found it hard to support the family after his father, a labourer, was killed during one of the anti-India protests in Jammu and Kashmir in 2008.
Aid Organisations Welcome New Development Chief
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 09 (IPS) - Roger Hamilton-Martin is a free lance journalist based in London
International aid organisations have reacted positively to the appointment of new UK International Secretary of State for Development, Rory Stewart.
Campaign to Whitewash Saudi Arabia’s Image Does Little for Women in the Kingdom
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 08 (IPS) - Uma Mishra-Newbery is the Interim Executive Director of Women's March Global, which is a founding member of the Free Saudi Women Coalition & Kristina Stockwood works with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), which is a founding member of the Free Saudi Women Coalition.
Amid a high-profile public relations campaign to convince the world just how much the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is modernising – highlighted in last year's lifting of the ban on women driving – Saudi authorities continue their relentless persecution of women human rights defenders.
Leaving No One Behind: Young People’s Participation at UN
- Inter Press Service
GABARONE, Botswana, May 08 (IPS) - Dumiso Gatsha* is a human rights defender, feminist and part-time PhD (Law) candidate.
Walking down 44th street towards UNICEF House was a poignant moment for me: having sought out resources, gone through strenuous immigration processes and having had my assumptions unraveled with the realities of New York City (NYC). This was it.
The Ethiopian City Lost in the Shadow of South Sudan's War
- Inter Press Service
GAMBELLA, Ethiopia, May 06 (IPS) - Right up against the border with South Sudan, the western Gambella region of Ethiopia has become a watchword for trouble and no-go areas as its neighbour's troubles have spilled over. But now there may be reason for optimism on either side of the border.
UN Chief’s Reprehensible Bankrolling of Violence in Burundi
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 06 (IPS) - Paula Donovan is Co-Director, AIDS-Free World and its Code Blue Campaign
Last week the Washington Post published a scathing critique by the executive director of Human Rights Watch, titled "Why the U.N. Chief's Silence on Human Rights is Deeply Troubling." Kenneth Roth argued that Secretary-General António Guterres "is becoming defined by his silence on human rights—even as serious rights abuses proliferate."
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