On the expected meeting day with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, President of the United States, signed a series of executive orders from the United Nations organism, including the Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and a wider revision of US financing to a multilateral organization. The authority of the Council is to supervise respect and […]
Tag: human rights
Iraq passes a law criminalizing homosexuality with 15-year prison sentences
The Iraqi parliament on Saturday approved the inclusion of changes in the anti-prostitution law criminalization of homosexual relationships and transgender expressions, which now carry penalties of up to fifteen years in prison. Read more: Ecuador reported that Colombia has completely cut off the electrical connection The legislature noted that the amendments were passed ‘to preserve […]
Breivik sues Norway: prison in violation of European Convention
Anders Breivik sues Norway. As he argues, isolation in prison is contrary to human rights and contrary to the European Convention. Anders Breivik, responsible for the murder of 77 people, is currently in Ringerike prison. The Norwegian believes that the punishment imposed on him is contrary to art. 3 of the European Convention on Human […]
She was sentenced to 74 lashes for not covering up: “I challenged them on behalf of all women”
His story has already traveled around the world. 33-year-old Iranian girl and human rights activist Roya Heshmati was fined 74 lira for spreading a photo of herself without a headscarf or veil on Keshavarz Boulevard in Iran’s capital Tehran. The sentence was carried out last January 3, and the situation could have been even worse: […]
UN: “Mass arrests of Palestinians, including women, children and the elderly, in Gaza”
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported that it had received alarming reports from northern Gaza of mass detentions as well as ill-treatment and enforced disappearances of perhaps thousands of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers. Among them were women and children; Many were stopped trying to go south or during […]
The clothes we wear are made by slaves: Here are the brands, even the expensive ones
When considering Christmas shopping, you run the risk of purchasing clothes that are the result of forced labor. A number of major brands, both mainstream and luxury, were named in a report of companies at risk of purchasing products from factories where Uyghurs are forced to work. We’re talking brands like Zara, Ralph Lauren, Levi’s […]
Two minors sentenced to death in the country that will host the World Cup
They took part in anti-government protests when they were young and now face the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, which will host the Football World Cup in 2034. Amnesty International tells the story of Abdullah al Derazi and Jalal. Labbad, both were under eighteen years of age at the time of the alleged crimes. According […]
What does apartheid in Palestine mean in daily life?
Following Hamas’s attack on Israel on the morning of October 7, the question of the conditions under which Palestinians have lived for decades, especially in the Gaza Strip and beyond, arose. A situation described by the main international organizations dealing with human rights as a genuine “Apartheid”, a policy not unlike the policy of apartheid […]
16-year-old teenager fell into a coma because she did not wear a veil: Video blamed the police
She was banished from life by the Iranian morality police because she did not wear a headscarf. The trial of 16-year-old Kurdish origin Armita Garawand, who was allegedly attacked by regime police while she was on the subway in Tehran without wearing a headscarf, continues worldwide. The case, condemned by Iranian resistance organizations and spread […]
Amnesty International presents an interactive map of global state repression
Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are among the European countries United States, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Chile among the American nations included in this digital world map, which, by clicking on the individual links, gives access to the document archive of the entity in which it denounces these abuses. “By […]