Yuliya Vassilyeva’s photograph of a Nenets girl looking out the door of her chum opens Survival’s 2025 ‘We, the people’ Calendar. © Yuliya Vassilyeva A special gift for the upcoming holidays The extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous peoples and their daily struggles to have their fundamental rights recognized celebrated in thirteen splendid images: it … Read more
Mexico City. After announcing the draft decree of the Chamber of Deputies with which it is intended to expand the catalog of crimes susceptible to applying informal preventive detention, the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN- DH) reiterated that “this measure is incompatible with human rights standards.” Informal … Read more
AFPMirta Acuña de Baravelle (right) seven years ago at a protest in Buenos Aires NOS news•today, 5:49 p.m Mirta Acuña de Baravalle, an Argentine human rights activist, has died at the age of 99. She was one of the twelve founders of the group Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, known in the Netherlands … Read more
Survivors of gender-based violence, people with disabilities and psychosocial difficulties, victims of torture, victims of human trafficking, asylum seekers and refugees, second-generation immigrants, Roma, prisoners in prisons, elderly people, LGBTI+ people, people living below the threshold of of poverty, students, teachers, parents and guardians, young men and women, are just some of the groups that … Read more
Ginebra. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said Tuesday he was “horrified” by Monday’s Israeli bombing near a hospital south of Beirut. “I am horrified by the Israeli airstrike near the Rafic Hariri hospital in the densely populated Jnah neighborhood of Beirut, which reportedly left at least 18 dead, including four children, … Read more
The serious violations to which the numbers of Tindouf camps are controlled by the armed separatist militia of the “Polisario” were strongly denied, during the 4th commission of the UN General Assembly held there in New York. The president of the Spanish “Avina” Foundation, Pedro Macarrón, spoke out, in front of the members of the … Read more
Vienna (OTS) – Am 5. October 2024, 9:00-16:00the fourth conference of the Islamic Conference of Austria will be held in Vienna, which will be dedicated to the theme “Islam and pluralism”. Starting from the thesis that the possibility of secularism does not threaten the stability of the faith, but that it is an advantage for … Read more
human rights, carabineros, claudio crespo, sebastian zamora, lawyers, human rights human rights, carabineros, claudio crespo, sebastian zamora, lawyers, human rights Posted on September 6, 2024 human rights, carabineros, claudio crespo, sebastian zamora, lawyers, human rights human rights, carabineros, claudio crespo, sebastian zamora, lawyers, human rights From August 30 to September 30, Santiago is the stage … Read more
On the whole, the Swiss Corona measures were understandable, the authorities mostly acted proportionately, to the best of their knowledge and belief. But certainly not here: When it came to completely sealing off retirement homes, the decision-makers lost all sense of proportion. Now the Federal Council has also admitted in a report that the measure … Read more
human rights, carabineros, racism, human rights, missing detainees, joanne florvil human rights, carabineros, racism, human rights, missing detainees, joanne florvil Posted on August 29, 2024 human rights, carabineros, racism, human rights, missing detainees, joanne florvil human rights, carabineros, racism, human rights, missing detainees, joanne florvil From August 30th to September 30th This year, the “Campaign … Read more