Human Rights

The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and at the same time making broader the meaning of security in global politics and…

Gubat, Sorsogon — Editorial cartoonists from across the country have joined forces to illustrate the struggles of Gubat’s fisherfolk and coastal communities in the Ink for Impact: An Editorial Cartoon Challenge, organized by the Save Gubat Bay Movement (SGBM) in partnership with the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective,…

Israel and Palestine: a conflict, a colonial occupation, a racist apartheid system, and an “incremental genocide” that has lasted some 80 years and has resumed more violently than before after October 7, 2023. What political solution today for Palestine? We…

On Saturday, January 25, 2025, the first Assembly of the World Humanist Forum will take place online. At this meeting, various Thematic Tables will be put into dynamics that will have an international and intercultural character. Context and framework of…

After 49 years of incarceration, 80-year-old Leonard Peltier has been granted clemency. He will be released from jail and complete his sentence in home confinement. Leonard was sentenced to two life sentences for the deaths of two FBI agents in…

In a show of broad support from Indian Country, on January 13 2025, over 120 tribal leaders sent a letter calling for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier. At 80 years old, Peltier is in his 49th year…

We, the 230 members of the Philippine-Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI), express profound concern regarding the Supreme Court’s First Division’s affirmation of the Malabon Regional Trial Court’s decision declaring Sections 4 (58), 16, and 18 of the Philippine Fisheries Code (Republic…

Today Jehovah’s Witness Volodymyr Baranov was placed to pre-trial detention by Darnitsky District Court of Kyiv, judge Olha Prosalova. The court decided he could be released on the bail 180 000 UAH. It was not a public hearing, I was…

In the late 19th century, the German philosopher and sociologist W.M. Wundt introduced the concept of heterogenesis of ends, describing how human actions often lead to unintended outcomes, diverting from the original goals and creating new motivations along the way. While…

Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, a Palestinian born in Jabalia in 1973, is a pediatric consultant and currently the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. He is a leading figure in the health sector and is responsible…