Politics

Brazil: An Urgent Call to Protect Rights

 

 

 

October 28, 2018 

(São Paulo) - Brazil´s judiciary and other key institutions should resist any attempt to undermine human rights, the rule of law, and democracy under Jair Bolsonaro’s government, Human Rights Watch said today.

‘Exercise restraint’ Guterres urges Sri Lankans, as political crisis deepens

 

28 October 2018

 

Peace and Security

 

Iran: Environmentalists Face Capital Charges

 

 

October 26, 2018 

 

Sri Lanka: Political Turmoil Puts Rights At Risk

 

 

October 27, 2018 

 

FROM THE FIELD: Photos highlight agony of West African civil wars

 

26 October 2018

 

Peace and Security

 

2,300 migrant children in Central American ‘caravan’ need protection, UNICEF says

 

26 October 2018

 

Migrants and Refugees

 

‘Deteriorating’ human rights in Belarus amounts to ‘wholescale oppression’: UN expert

 

25 October 2018

 

Human Rights

 

A crackdown on free speech is the latest worrying development amid the deteriorating, “wholescale oppression” of human rights in Belarus, an independent expert told the UN General Assembly, on Thursday.

FROM THE FIELD: Enslaved Guatemalan indigenous women wait for reparations

 

25 October 2018

 

Women

 

Fifteen Guatemalan women from the Q’eqchi indigenous group, who were enslaved and raped by the military during the Central American country’s 36-year-long civil conflict, are still waiting for hard-won reparations to materialize.

Accountability for atrocities in Myanmar ‘cannot be expected’ within its borders – UN investigator

 

24 October 2018

 

Human Rights

 

Accountability for atrocities in Myanmar ‘cannot be expected’ within its borders – UN investigator

 

24 October 2018

 

Human Rights