ALGIERS: According to human rights organisations, Karim Tabbou, one of Algeria’s most prominent opposition members, has been imprisoned again. Tabbou was one of the most well-known faces during the extraordinary large protests organised by the pro-democracy Hirak movement, which began in February 2019. They wanted a complete revision of the ruling structure that had been … Read more
The prosecution of Brazilian ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on corruption allegations breached his right to an impartial trial, according to the UN Human Rights Committee. The judgment by the Geneva expert panel came as a triumph for the communist leader, who was imprisoned from April 2018 to November 2019, just as he prepares … Read more
PTTEP, Thailand’s oil and gas company, and Petronas, Malaysia’s oil and gas conglomerate, announced their withdrawal from Myanmar’s Yetagun gas project on Friday. After last year’s military takeover and related charges of human rights violations, big energy corporations such as Chevron and TotalEnergies have left Myanmar. According to a local monitoring group, over 1,800 civilians … Read more
Two famous singers jailed for violating family values over their viral video with a belly dancer Human rights activists have shown displeasure on an Egyptian court. For imprisoning two famous singers over a video they made with a Brazilian belly dance artist. In the video, they are seen lip-synchronizing and grinning as the artist. Who … Read more
Several countries and organizations, inclusive of the UN, pledged on Wednesday to convey to justice any perpetrators of warfare crimes devoted at some stage in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They were entreated on through the Lebanese-British barrister Amal Clooney, who stated she feared “politicians calling for justice but no longer handing over it.” “My fear … Read more
The ruling junta in Mali has definitively banned French broadcasters RFI and France 24 after complaining of false accusations that the Sahel kingdom’s military carried out abuses, the radio and television channels stated Wednesday. France Medias Monde, the country-owned determine corporation of RFI and France 24, stated it had obtained notification in the course of … Read more
France condemned the life sentence surpassed via a Turkish courtroom to main civil society activist Osman Kavala, on Tuesday. pronouncing his detention violated Turkey’s global responsibilities. “France strongly condemns the life sentence,” the foreign ministry said, calling for Kavala’s “immediate release” and the dropping of all charges against him. He had been detained for extra … Read more
Human Rights Watch govt director Kenneth Roth said Tuesday he was stepping down after three a long time wherein the New York-based NGO has become a thorn inside the aspect of authoritarian regimes and rights abuses globally. Roth, who has led the organization considering the fact that 1993, will depart at the end of August, … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin will next week maintain talks with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Russia, the Kremlin said on Friday. The statement turned into made on the 58th day of Moscow’s army campaign in Ukraine, with heaps killed and greater than 12 million displaced human beings, in Europe’s worst refugee disaster on the … Read more
Yemen’s Huthi rebels have agreed to stop using child soldiers, the United Nations said, after thousands of below-age combatants had been recruited for the seven years of civil war. The Huthis will be released all infant soldiers within six months under a new movement plan, the UN stated, including that the warring parties have all … Read more
The United States has lifted a legislative hold on a nearly $1 billion arms sale to Nigeria because of worries about the Nigerian government’s human rights record. The sale of 12 Bell AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters was placed on hold in July by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The … Read more
Lebanon demanded the demolishment on Beirut’s grain silos, at risk of breakdown following a devastating 2020 port explosion, on Thursday, in spite of calls to save them as a memorial site. “We tasked the Council for Development and Reconstruction with supervising the demolition process,” said Information Minister Ziad Makari. After a cabinet official meeting, without … Read more
The fate of 100 youngsters jailed in a Syrian prison remains unclear more than two months after militants raided the institution, according to United Nations experts on Friday. International human rights organisations, including Save the Children and Human Rights Watch, have stated that 700 boys were held in the Kurdish-run jail in northern Hassakeh province … Read more
The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from flying unless accompanied by a male relative, in the latest crackdown on basic human rights by the country’s new rulers since seizing power. The hardline Islamists have imposed sweeping restrictions on freedoms, mostly targeting Afghan girls and women, and on Sunday also ordered local television channels … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday said Pakistan would continue cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights machinery for the promotion and protection of all human rights and realisation of the sustainable development agenda. In a meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, the foreign minister underscored Pakistan’s … Read more
WASHINGTON – The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2021, released by the State Council Information Office last week, shows that the human rights situation in the US worsened last year. For instance, there was a sharp surge in Covid-19 deaths particularly among the most disadvantaged groups due to epidemic prevention … Read more
BEIJING – On February 15, China’s Embassy in Canada condemned some Canadian media outlets for proliferating reports claiming that children in the Xizang Autonomous Region “are forced into boarding schools.” Rejecting the claims as false, the embassy iterated that children in Xizang are offered a high quality of education and protection, and that boarding school … Read more
SEOUL: The world should provide millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines to North Korea, where “draconian” anti-pandemic measures are worsening an already-severe food crisis, a UN human rights expert said Wednesday. The impoverished nation has been behind a rigid self-imposed coronavirus blockade since early 2020 to protect itself from the pandemic, with the economy suffering … Read more
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the country’s embattled opposition voices. UN rights experts warn the gateway, which will funnel all web traffic through a state-controlled entry point from February 16, will have a “devastating” effect on privacy … Read more
DAMASCUS – A total of 13 people were killed by a U.S. security operation in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib before daybreak Thursday, a war monitor reported. Four children and three women were among those killed by the U.S. operation which included an airdrop of forces and aerial targeting by warplanes in the rebel-held province, … Read more
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underscores the need for respecting human rights in his interactions with world leaders, including the rights of the Kashmiri people, a UN spokesperson said Wednesday. “The Secretary-General has always expressed, both publicly and privately, the need for all human rights to be fully respected and for the authorities to … Read more
Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari recently told a group of journalists at her ministry that a bill pertaining to enforced disappearances in the country had gone “missing” from the record of the Senate, the upper house of the parliament. The National Assembly – the lower house of the parliament – on November 8 … Read more
BANGKOK: The exit of energy titans TotalEnergies and Chevron from Myanmar’s billion dollar gas industry has been hailed by rights groups, but analysts say it will not significantly weaken the generals and may even enrich the military in the short term. Both firms had faced pressure to cut financial links with the junta that toppled … Read more
PARIS: French oil giant TotalEnergies on Friday said it would withdraw from Myanmar over “worsening” human rights abuses committed since the country’s military took power in a February 2021 coup. “The situation, in terms of human rights and more generally the rule of law, which have kept worsening in Myanmar… has led us to reassess the … Read more
STRASBOURG, France – The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected a case brought over a UK bakery’s refusal to bake a gay wedding cake, saying British legal options had to be exhausted before it would get involved. Plaintiff Gareth Lee, who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2014 ordered a cake for a … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry told AFP in an interview Monday that he was targeted in an assassination attempt during weekend national day celebrations. “An attempt has been made against me personally. My life has been put in the crosshairs,” said Henry, who has been de-facto running the country since the July assassination … Read more
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Munir Akram has said that Pakistan will combat the virus of disinformation globally in cooperation with other member states of the UN and international organizations. He said this on Saturday while expressing his gratitude over adoption of a Pakistan-sponsored resolution by the UN General Assembly … Read more
The US imposed sanctions against Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) police force, and seven of its current and former top officials for human rights abuses and abductions, in addition to extrajudicial killings. “Widespread allegations of serious human rights abuse in Bangladesh by RAB — as part of the Bangladeshi government’s war on drugs — threaten US national … Read more
