Rights Groups Call for Durable Solution for Europe’s Migrants
Migrants send a message – “We are humans, not animals”. Credit: Amnesty International FranceBy A. D. McKenziePARIS, Jun 13 2015 (IPS)Human rights groups are calling for a sustainable solution to the...
View ArticleOpinion: The ACP at 40 – Repositioning as a Global Player
ACP Secretary-General Patrick I. Gomes, who sees the group’s role as “a global player defending, protecting and promoting an inclusive struggle against poverty and for sustainable development in a...
View ArticleMuseums Taking Stand for Human Rights, Rejecting ‘Neutrality’
A visitor looking at a panel at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England. Credit: A.D. McKenzie/IPSBy A. D. McKenzieLIVERPOOL, England, Jul 21 2015 (IPS)An exhibition on modern-day...
View ArticleOpinion: A Farewell to Arms that Fuel Atrocities is Within Our Grasp
The recent destruction of this 2,000-year-old temple – the temple of Baal-Shamin in Palmyra, Syria – is yet another grim example of how the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) uses...
View ArticleOpinion: Paris Will Be Make or Break for the Planet
Renee Juliene Karunungan, 25, is the advocacy director of Dakila, a group of artists, students, and individuals in the Philippines committed to working towards social change, which has been campaigning...
View ArticleOpinion: Will the SDGs Serve to Bridge the Gender Gap?
By Paloma DuranUNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 2015 (IPS)Increasingly gender equality, rooted in human rights, is recognized both as a key development goal on its own and as a vital means to helping accelerate...
View ArticleInterview: “‘We’re Not Independent Enough,” says ASEAN Rights Commission Chair
By Diana MendozaKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 2015 (IPS)(IPS Asia-Pacific) – Although it is six years old, few know what the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) does. It has been called...
View ArticleAnalysis: Press Freedom Shaken in Zimbabwe
Press freedom in this Southern African nation has been shaken abruptly, this time surprisingly, with members of the police force heavily descending on journalists working for state-owned media But even...
View ArticleHonour Our Right to Exist, Say Pacific Island Leaders at COP21
On World Human Rights Day (December 10) at the UN climate conference in Paris, small island nations from the Pacific made a passionate call to the world leaders: stop climate change and honour our...
View ArticleUN Discovery of Secret Detention Centre Revives Nightmares
Details of a secret detention center, where serious human rights abuses took place, deep inside the sprawling Tricomalee Naval base in the east of Sri Lanka are slowly emerging. The site is nothing new...
View ArticleHuman Rights in Turkey: Is Turkish Press Freedom in Danger?
By Lorena Di CarloMADRID, Dec 21 2015 (IPS)The last week of November marked another phase of an ongoing shift in the Turkish Government´s approach to human rights issues – Two important events...
View ArticleFrench firm attacks Ugandan tax using ISDS
By Edward Ronald Segyawa and Frank MulderKAMPALA, Dec 25 2015 (IPS)The heavily criticized legal mechanism, known as ISDS, is an important tool for European companies to pressurize developing countries....
View ArticleTime to Repeal Anti-Terrorism Law in Ethiopia
Anuradha Mittal is the Executive Director of the Oakland Institute. By Anuradha MittalOAKLAND, California, Jan 25 2016 (IPS)With the African Union celebrating the African Year of Human Rights at its...
View ArticleWhy the World Needs a UN Leader Who Stands Up for Human Rights
The Human Rights Council in Geneva. UN Photo/Pierre-Michel Virot.By Anna NeistatUNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 2016 (IPS)Last August, Balla Hadji, a 61-year-old truck driver in Bangui in the Central African...
View ArticleThe Global South’s Untold Human Rights Legacy
Jamaica was one of the early adopters of Human Rights Foreign Policy. Pictured: Courtenay Rattray, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the UN. Credit: UN Photo/Amanda VoisardBy Aruna DuttNEW YORK,...
View ArticleUN Must Fight Tax Evasion, Says UN Expert
Alfred de Zayas, Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak.By Tharanga YakupitiyageUNITED NATIONS, Oct 25 2016 (IPS)A UN Human...
View ArticleU.S. President-Elect Donald Trump Urged to Ensure Human Rights for All
A view of Trump World Tower opposite the United Nations in New York. Credit: IPS UN Bureau.By Tharanga YakupitiyageNEW YORK, Nov 9 2016 (IPS)Across the world, human rights groups are reacting to the...
View ArticlePopulist Leaders Endanger Human Rights: Advocacy Organisation
Populist leaders pose a dangerous threat to human rights, fuelling and justifying intolerance and abuse across the world, said advocacy group Human Rights Watch during the launch of their annual global...
View ArticleQ&A: A Cuban Film About Family in the “Global South” Premieres in Berlin
“La Arrancada” is a feature film about a young athlete who is having doubts about her role in national sports in Cuba. Courtesy of FiGa Films By A. D. McKenzieBERLIN/PARIS, Feb 12 2019 (IPS) A...
View Article“A Year of Shame” for Middle East and North Africa
In a new report, Amnesty International reviewed the state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and found a bleak landscape of repression. UN Photo/Iason FoountenBy Tharanga...
View ArticleFears Grow for Indigenous People in Path of Massive Ethiopian Dam
Lake Turkana, believed to be four million years old, has been called “the Cradle of Mankind”. The Kwegu people living around it are under threat from the massive Gibe III Dam project, one of Africa’s...
View ArticleTribunal Ruling Could Dent “Monster Boat” Trawling in West African Waters
Bakau fish market, The Gambia. The plight of Gambian and other West African artisan fishers could soon see a change for the better following an historic ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law...
View ArticleOpinion: Paying Real Tribute to All Victims of War and Conflict
In this column, Christian Guillermet Fernández* and David Fernández Puyana* describe the background to negotiations on a United Nations declaration on the right to peace.By Christian Guillermet...
View ArticleOpinion: Burundi – Fragile Peace at Risk Ahead of Elections
In this column, David Kode, a Policy and Research Officer at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, describes a series of restrictions on freedom in Burundi and, in the run-up to elections in May...
View ArticleSwelling Ethiopian Migration Casts Doubt on its Economic Miracle
By Chalachew TadesseADDIS ABABA, Apr 25 2015 (IPS) The 28 Ethiopian migrants of Christian faith murdered by the Islamic State (IS) on Apr. 19 in Libya had planned to cross the Mediterranean Sea in...
View ArticleNew Anti-Terrorism Law Batters Cameroonians Seeking Secession
By Mbom SixtusYAOUNDE, Apr 26 2015 (IPS) Cameroon’s government under President Paul Biya is bearing down on a separatist movement fighting for the rights of a minority English-language region, using as...
View ArticleJazz as a Force for Peace and Freedom
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock, the brains behind International Jazz Day, an event that aims to encourage and highlight the “power of jazz as a force for freedom and creativity”. Credit: A.D. McKenzieBy A....
View ArticleIsrael Slammed Over Treatment of Palestinian Children in Detention
Palestinian children, no matter how young, are often victims of mistreatment in Israeli police and military detention facilities. Photo credit: UNICEF/El BabaBy Mel FrykbergRAMALLAH, West Bank, May 5...
View ArticleEU Calls for Paradigm Shift in Development Cooperation
The European Commission is calling for SDGs to address poverty eradication and sustainable development together in three dimensions – economic, social and environmental. Photo credit: UNFPA SudanBy...
View ArticleAccusations of ‘Apartheid’ Cause Israelis to Backpedal
Azzum Atme checkpoint border crossing from the West Bank into Israel, where hundreds of Palestinian labourers cross into Israel each day using Israeli buses. These labourers already face long delays at...
View ArticleThe U.N. at 70: Drugs and Crime are Challenges for Sustainable Development
Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "The magnitude of the problems we face is such that it is sometimes hard to...
View ArticleFishing and Farming in Gaza is a Deadly Business
Gazan fishermen Ibrahim Al Quka and his brother Sami Al Quka, who had his hand shot off by the Israeli navy even though he was within Israel's restricted fishing zone. Credit: Mel FrykbergBy Mel...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Are Threats to Civil Society Growing Around the World?
In this column, Mandeep Tiwana, a lawyer specialising in human rights and civil society issues and Head of Policy and Research at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, argues that in recent years...
View ArticleOpinion: G7 Makes Commitment on Climate … to Climate Chaos
Is the G7 commitment to an energy transition that aims to gradually phase out fossil fuel emissions this century to avoid the worst of climate change just hot air? Credit: CC BY-SA 2.5By Lucy...
View ArticleWhen Branded as a Born Criminal: The Plight of India’s De-Notified Tribes
A girl from the Nat community performing – Credit: Department for Social Justice By Mariya SalimNEW DELHI, India, Jul 30 2021 (IPS) Branded as being born ‘criminal’ 150 years ago under British colonial...
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