World
Clothing Brands Need to Step Up and Keep Women Safe in Their Factories
In a recent survey of experts, countries were ranked according to how safe they are for women. India came out as the most dangerous, followed by Afghanistan and Syria.
Monday 9 July 2018France: Child Migrants Left Adrift in Paris
Human Rights Watch (Paris) – Child protection authorities in Paris are using flawed age assessment procedures for unaccompanied migrant children, excluding many from care they need and are entitled to, Human Rights Watch said in […]
Monday 9 July 2018Interview: Years of Untold Suffering at Jail Ogaden
Human Rights Watch – In the Somali region of Ethiopia, it seems like everyone knows someone who was locked up in the dreaded Jail Ogaden, but no one wants to speak about the horrors there. The […]
Monday 9 July 2018Owning the future: strategies for a democratic economy
Open democracy – Deep and intersecting crises confront us. Growth is anaemic; wages and productivity are stagnant; inequality is stark; investment is low; consumer debt is high; and asset bubbles are frequent. Future trends, from the rise […]
Saturday 7 July 2018Syria: Mass Graves in Former ISIS Areas
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – A local group working to uncover mass graves in the area of northeastern Syria once controlled by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) needs international support and technical assistance to preserve evidence of […]
Saturday 7 July 2018Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy 2018
EIUC is glad to announce the 13th edition of the Summer School in Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy, a training initiative developed by EIUC and CHRA dedicated to graduates, professionals of the human rights, media, NGO and advocacy sector. Anyone who uses […]
Friday 6 July 2018No more time limit to prosecute sexual offense in South Africa
FIDH – On Thursday 14 June 2018, the South African Constitutional Court (Court) issued an unanimous judgment confirming that there will be no more time limit in which to institute a criminal prosecution for any sexual […]
Wednesday 27 June 2018Hodeidah: What the assault means for Yemen’s civilians and the aid effort
Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates and their Yemeni partners – part of a Saudi Arabian-led coalition that has been fighting Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen since March 2015 – are now on the outskirts of the Houthi-controlled city of 600,000.
Wednesday 27 June 201853rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, female filmmakers from eastern Europe and Iranian cinema
The Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Czech Republic &the most prestigious one in Central and Eastern Europe. It is incidentally one of the oldest. A-list film, which means a category equal to the festivals of Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Moscow…
Monday 25 June 2018‘I couldn’t even scream’: survival and abuse inseparable for Kabul children
The Guardian -For 14-year-old Ahmed*, life as a kid on the streets of the Afghan capital has become synonymous with abuse. His voice calm and unwavering, Ahmed reels off stories of the assaults he has suffered […]
Friday 15 June 2018
