Human Rights

October 4-7, 2023. The South Korean city of Gwangju hosted the 13th World Human Rights Cities Forum (a live and online forum) at Kimdaejung Convention Centre. This year, the theme was ‘Human Rights Cities Responding to Poverty and Inequalities’, which…

In Argentina there is a denial of basic human rights by political sectors that seek to degrade the validity and militancy of these rights. They even maintain that the issue is used by certain sectors as “a joke”. This is…

Secretary-General António Guterres and other senior United Nations officials celebrated the award of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Iranian journalist and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. The Nobel Prize “is a tribute to all those women who fight…

By Maxine Lowy “Surely you exaggerate. How can it be that bad?” 1 In response to Chilean judges’ ostensible disbelief that torture had become routine after September 11, 1973, the day that has left the nation scarred 50 years later,…

The people were in slave-like situations in 131 municipalities in 23 Brazilian states. Rio de Janeiro. At least 532 people were rescued in Brazil from slave-like conditions in the country’s largest-ever operation against slave labour, officials said on Tuesday (5…

Silencing, denying and distorting events, a practice of great disloyalty. Fake news, what we know today as Fake News, has played its part, in the 1970s and later, in a constant attempt to falsify history and memory. In certain newspapers…

Following the denial of political asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the Belarusian peace builder and human rights defender Olga Karatch (Volha Karach), the international campaign #protection4olga has just been launched to demand protection and asylum for the director of…

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…

On 4 July 1976 in Algiers, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples was proclaimed. It was the result of a complex process that coincided with the emergence of many new nations in Africa and Asia, the fruit of…

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…