Human Rights

Geneva, 19 May 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed shock over the murder of another Indian journalist and demanded justice for the bereaved family of  Dharmendra Singh Chauhan. The Haryana-based media person, who…

Calls for Immediate Project Cancellation   We, the Stop Kaliwa Dam Network, strongly denounce the approval of an additional ₱3.1 billion for the Kaliwa Dam Project, raising its total cost to ₱15.3 billion. This decision, pushed through by the National…

Satsuki Ina on Ending the Alien Enemies Act Photos of my father and other Japanese Americans brutalized in the Tule Lake Segregation Center in 1945 chillingly resonate with the treatment of Venezuelans by the U.S. government today. Invoking the Alien…

On 14 May 2025, the USA-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced the launch of its first-ever homepage for its AI for Individual Rights initiatives. The program is said to be the world’s first to expose artificial intelligence (AI) used by…

Events will happen in countries worldwide under the theme “The power of communities” Access data about the legal situation for LGBTI people: globally | in your country/jurisdiction Geneva (Switzerland), 12 May 2025 – Numerous initiatives are taking place worldwide in May to celebrate sexual…

Guwahati: The Baloch descendants have urged the United Nations to recognize Balochistan as an independent nation out of Pakistan.  In a letter, addressed to UN secretary-general António Guterres, the  Baloch Welfare Association in India, demanded to support the Baloch nation’s…

Open Letter to the World Press Water constitutes a significant portion of the human body, ranging from 55% to 70%. A large proportion of this water contains particles known as ions, which are atoms or molecules that have either gained…

Despite a persistent rain, yesterday afternoon various social organisations grouped together in the Espacio Día a día por Julia Chuñil (Day by Day for Julia Chuñil) demonstrated outside the headquarters of four branches of the Chilean state to protest their…

By Maxine Lowy Late at night there’s a knock on the door. When the door is opened, men in civilian clothes descend upon a man, handcuff him and take him away. Elsewhere, a young woman on the sidewalk near her…

Civil Society Organizations Demand an Immediate Policy Overhaul to Align ADB with Climate Justice and Human Rights Milan, Italy – At the 58th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a united front of civil society organizations from across…