Human Rights

Here is the sequel to Priestly solidarity with the poor. Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas interviewed Edward M. Gerlock about his life as a priest when martial law was declared in the Philippines on September 23, 1972.  Edward Gerlock sent Pressenza a…

We spoke to Ryma Sheermohammadi about what is happening in Iran afterwards the death of Mahsa Amini; about the solidarity of the population in different parts of the world; about the slow response of Western governments… but also about the…

The new political changes in Kenya and the period of political instability that the country has witnessed raise the question of whether the newly elected president and the government would address the issue of child labor and poverty in Kenya.…

This week we have started an action to denounce on an international scale the irresponsibility, culpability and punishability of the main actors of global finance and the highest political leaders (heads of state and government) of the 20 ‘richest’ states…

Seven civil society organizations from Samos island brief MEPs, ahead of LIBE Committee meeting on October 10th. Frontex is not using its internal monitoring and reporting mechanism to investigate potential violations of fundamental rights or international protection obligations: this is…

Melbourne SOS Stand up 4 Assange – Human Chain of Assange supporters stretching from Princes Bridge at Flinders St Station to the Arts Centre, along the Yarra River, back across Evan Walker pedestrian bridge Southbank and circling back to Princes Bridge. Julian Assange’s father and…

The March to Brussels has ended with a call for the strengthening of a strategy and a change in the balance of power that allows for a different migration policy based on the fulfilment of human rights. Several hundred people…

In the early hours of this morning (4), by order of the Ministry of National Security, a “unified command” made up of federal forces of prefecture, gendarmerie and federal police with the collaboration of the provincial police of Río Negro,…

August 2022 marked one year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. That year has been defined by human rights violations, directed especially against women and girls. By Mayssa Issaoui and Matt Tipton On April 14, 2021, Joe Biden announced plans to…

This September saw the end of the second cycle of workshops on human development in the context of confinement, which has been given by a team of humanists in the prisons of the province of Buenos Aires. During the last…