UN expert sounds alarm over ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ in Canada
Tomoya Obokata, the Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the global scourge of modern slavery issued his statement at the end of a 14-day…
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Accountability key to Sri Lanka’s future: UN rights chief
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stressed the urgency of addressing these challenges if the country is to move forward,…
People of African descent facing ‘immense challenges’ in public square
It details how systemic racism, marginalization and exclusion, rooted in the legacies of enslavement and colonialism, continue to have a negative effect…
Record civilian cluster munitions victims as experts urge global ban
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of civilians killed by cluster munitions, according to new data released
Record numbers risking lives to cross dangerous Darien Gap
So far this year, more than 330,000 people have crossed the Darien Gap on their journey towards North America risking their lives…
Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, international uproar about Putin’s missile strike (II)
Bitter Winter (09.01.2023) – 23 July 2023 was a Black Sunday for the city of Odesa and for Ukraine. When Ukrainians and the…
Psychiatry and Pharmacocraczy, How Mental Illness Diagnoses Are Inflated
Psychiatry – A recent article entitled “The shady business of mental illness: how the consumption of psychotropic drugs in the US has…
Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists
The Government of Mexico is called upon to investigate and prosecute those who attack and kill women activists searching for their missing…
Moscow’s deportation of 20,000 Ukrainian children to Russia, says a report filed with the UN
Learn about the deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and the efforts to bring them home. Read the report by Human Rights…
109-year-old Tulsa Massacre survivor reflects on legacy of slavery in UN visit
Viola Fletcher was just seven years old when she was forcibly displaced from her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, by an armed mob…