Human Rights

In the framework of the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council, which is taking place in Geneva-Switzerland from 19 June to 14 July, on Tuesday 27th, Farida Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, presented her first report…

Every now and then, rational and humane representatives of all peoples of the world have had to make changes in their path. It was a matter of ensuring survival. Their concern was to examine what people had achieved so far…

Hundreds of armed settlers continued their arsonist actions yesterday. They set fire to dozens of houses in several villages in the Ramallah area. Particularly devastating was the attack in Umm Safa, which required Palestinian firefighters to rescue a family trapped…

Elena Popova is the head of the Russian Conscientious Objectors Movement. She lives in St. Petersburg. After the convulsive days of the crisis in Russia, she sent us this document prepared as the official position of the Movement, which is…

June 26th marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a date designated by the United Nations to remember and reaffirm our commitment to eradicate this cruel violation of human rights. This day invites us to reflect on…

Good news from Lithuania for the Belarusian objector: Vitali is free again as of today, pending appeal. Dvarashyn Vitali, the Belarusian conscientious objector who had been locked up in the Lithuanian refugee camp in Vilnius due to the revocation of…

“We will put an end to this brothel”, say two candidates of the neo-fascist – not only in name but also in practice – Spartans party that recently entered the Greek Parliament. They were parliamentary candidates in Rethymnon and Chania.…

Dr. Deen Mohammad Baloch was forcibly abducted by the Pakistani military from Ornach Khuzdar on 28 June 2009, and his whereabouts are still unknown. His daughters, Sammi Deen and Mehlab Deen, have been struggling for their father for 14 years.…

Since Algerian « independence » in 1962, for which Kabylia nevertheless invested body and soul by consenting to immense sacrifices, believing it would find its happiness like that of the other peoples that make up Algeria, Kabylia has had nothing…

The annual report on the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva and New York and in the field between 1 July 2022 and 1 March 2023 was released at the…