Human Rights

The Saharawi journalist, Mohamed Lamin Hadi, detained in Tifelt 2, who was sentenced to 25 years and 6 years in solitary confinement, has started a new hunger strike because of cruel treatment and medical negligence which threaten his life. His…

With the slogan #AbrazoAlAgua12A, next Saturday 12 August at 12 noon, more than 80 human chains will take place around aquatic ecosystems, all of them endangered by human predation. This action is organised by collectives grouped in the initiative www.abrazoalagua.org…

Ecuador is living days of shock and confusion after the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in the capital on 9 August, just half a week before the general elections called by President Guillermo Lasso, who will leave office two…

Dad Shah Shashani is a resident of Greshag Khuzdar and was forcibly abducted last night in front of his family in Hawksbay, Karachi by CTD[1]. As of now, his whereabouts remain unknown. Dad Shah Shashani is a student by profession…

On August 8th, President of the Republic of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan sent an urgent appeal to the international community to take measures to prevent the genocide of the Artsakh people and to lift the siege. The video of the appeal…

By Maxine Lowy Jaroslavsky* A man strolled his dog again, the laughter of another resonated as it always had and the smile of a young women in a mini-skirt beamed in the chilly, rainy morning. These were three of 119…

Aleksei Navalny, a prisoner of conscience and a leading figure in Russia’s political opposition movement, has been sentenced to 19 years to spend in a penal colony on trumped-up charges related to “extremism”. He will actually have to serve 10…

“Children first” is a statement typical of show business politics. It sounds pretty, it lacks content, but it has the virtue that everyone understands it and assimilates it according to their own principles, values and identification with some public policy.…

The book gathers interviews with former Allende ministers, sexual dissidence activists, artists and people linked to the defence of human rights. It also includes photographs and archival material such as letters from disappeared detainees, family albums and even drawings of…

In times of elections and short-term promises, indigenous communities are raising fundamental and structural issues. As in 1946, the native peoples mobilised in a new Malón de la Paz to Buenos Aires. The arbitrary constitutional reform of Jujuy, the defence…