Tag: Human rights

On Sunday, September 26, Switzerland became the 30th country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage in a national referendum ...

A humanitarian crisis is brewing at the Polish-Belarus border as refugees used as political pawns between European powers are dying ...

The annual Freedom on the Net report, which was published on Tuesday and collated by the think-tank, Freedom House, rates ...

Lafarge, a major French industrial company, is being dragged back into court over allegations of complicity in crimes against humanity ...

Social stratification, a system by which a society classifies its members into different groups based on socioeconomic factors (such as ...

The unfolding tragedies we are currently witnessing in Afghanistan and Haiti will occupy scholars and pundits for generations. They are ...

A 26-year-old Chinese woman has claimed she was detained for eight days at a Chinese-led "secret detention facility" located in ...

According to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia has seen a rise in executions during the first seven months of 2021, after ...

From the 26-28th of June representatives of over 100 countries and regions met in Rome for three days of talks. ...

The ability to own land and access natural resources allows women to secure food for their families, increase their agricultural productivity and ...

Around the world, communities of color and marginalized groups disproportionately feel the effects of pollution and other environmental impacts. Whether ...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, 243 million women and girls globally were abused by their intimate partners in the ...