Human Rights

15 October 2023 – In the north of the Gaza Strip the situation is dramatic, hospitals are overloaded and drugs and painkillers are running out. The wounded scream in pain, while those who need treatment are unable to reach hospitals…

In the New Zealand parliamentary elections, the National Party, led by Christopher Dixon, has won by a clear margin over the Labour Party of current Prime Minister Chris Hipkins. According to data from the New Zealand Electoral Commission, the conservative…

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira chairs a meeting of the UN Security Council today in New York, USA, to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Vieira, who concluded his working visit to Cambodia, postponed his visit to the Philippines and travelled to…

Thousands of kilometers away, bombs and shrapnel fall. Missiles criss-cross the air, weaving webs of smoke and death. In the streets, the stones of destroyed buildings are stained with the blood of hundreds of people. News reports exacerbate the massacres…

On September 7, 2023 in the morning, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake and several strong aftershocks hit western Afghanistan in the provinces of Herat, Badghis and Farah. Some of the most affected areas are located just 40 kilometers from the city…

Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it. Samos, a mile from the Turkish coastline, has become known as one of the five ‘hotspots’ in…

Warning: child abuse, human trafficking, sexual abuse, sexual assault. Since February 2020, victims of Pornhub have been trying to gain justice against Aylo (formerly MindGeek). The porn industry has been criticised for knowingly allowing videos of child abuse, human trafficking…

Interview with Eve McMullen about Advocacy Against Modern Slavery You work at one of the big organisations in the UK that provide support for victims of modern slavery. What exactly does your role encompass? People come to us when they…

A hundred Latin American and Caribbean organisations spoke out today in solidarity with the struggle of the Haitian people and to reject the authorisation to invade Haiti approved yesterday by the UN Security Council. The new “Multinational Security Support Mission”,…

The Nigerian crisis has been building up for months. Inflation and low wages, as well as the government’s announcement to suspend fuel subsidies, which would have a strong impact on the cost of living, are at the basis of this…