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Climate Change ‘Threatens Self-determination’ of Citizens in Island States

Human Wrongs Watch In the United Nations Human Rights Council on 6 March 2015 , senior UN officials joined high-level delegates from Pacific Island States that are on the frontline of the global battle against sea-level rise to examine the…

Campaigners given go-ahead to legally challenge Mayor of London over Parliament Square fencing

Press Release by Liberty [i] Liberty’s client has been granted permission to take the Mayor of London to court over his decision to fence off Parliament Square – preventing peaceful protests by Occupy Democracy from going ahead. The High Court…

Sonia Ines Goéz Orrego on a speaking tour in the U.S. to share her experience building peace in Colombia

New York, March 02 2015 – The presentation was organized by Colombia Human Rights Committee & Latin America Working Group Education Fund at The Graduate Center, CUNY in NYC Sonia Ines Goéz Orrego is the executive director of CEDECIS, a…

Zero Discrimination Day – Tolerance for Diversity Urgent

Human Wrongs Watch 1 March 2015 – The United Nations agency leading the world’s HIV/AIDS response has kicked off the 2015 global edition of Zero Discrimination Day as part of the Organization’s wider effort to spur solidarity towards ending discrimination.…

South Korea decriminalises adultery

Since 1985, almost 53,000 people have been charged with the crime of adultery. Although almost 50% of the population today hold no particular religious beliefs, adultery was enshrined as a crime in the 1953 constitution. In the last 25 years…

Telephone shutdown in R.D. Congo puts women in danger

Words and photos by LolaMora Productions Between the 20th of January and the 8th of February, Gislaine’s income dropped by 50 dollars a day – usually she takes between 70 and 90 dollars – from her business recharging mobile phones.…

Pax Christi International – Peace Award 2015

Pax Christi International – Peace Award 2015 Women, Peace and Security Collective for Reflection and Action (Colombia) PRESS RELEASE, Brussels, 23 February 2015 The 2015 Pax Christi International Peace Award has been granted to the Women, Peace and Security Collective for…

Take action to Orange your day also on 25 February!

Human Wrongs Watch The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, managed by UN Women, has proclaimed every 25th of the month as “Orange Day” – a day to take action to raise awareness and prevent violence against…

Swaziland – fit (only) for a king

Mbabane, Swaziland – Swaziland is as poor as a church mouse, and from the standpoint of size, just as small. The country is very close to South Africa in every way, and some people in South Africa at one stage…

Blackstone: “you are not untouchable” (video)

Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca or PAH – Platform for People Affected by Mortgages is a Spanish grassroots organization that takes direct action to stop evictions and campaigns for housing rights.  PAH was set up in Barcelona in February…

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