Tag: Human rights

Memorial events in South Africa have continued in the days since Desmond Tutu’s death on the 26th of December. Tutu, ...

Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s most prominent rights group, as President Vladimir ...

Fighting corruption, defending media freedom and human rights: these are the priorities indicated last week by Joe Biden in his ...

Patrick George Zaki, an Egyptian student and activist, was released from jail this week, after 22 months in detention, providing ...

Globally, an estimated 736 million women – almost one in three – have been subjected to intimate partner violence, non-partner ...

Poland has reinforced its border with Belarus, erecting a razor wire fence with soliders patrolling the boundaries. Reports suggest Polish ...

This morning, Little Amal – a 3.5-metre-tall puppet of a young refugee girl – met with children in Deptford, UK, ...

At the time of writing, news cycles have been saturated with stories of refugees clamouring at the borders of Europe ...

Unlawful pushbacks and violence against asylum-seekers and migrants are commonplace at the European Union’s external border. From the Western Balkans ...

In the Sahel, an area known for its harsh and arid conditions, Cameroon's refugees are restoring land that was once ...

The UN Human Rights Council has declared that access to a clean and healthy environment is a human right, in ...

On October 4 Facebook and its suite of apps, such as Instagram and Whatsapp, shut down for a majority of ...