Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Campaigns

Violence against women in Mexico

Amnesty International estimates that 11 women are killed each day in Mexico, and at least 20,000 women in the country are missing.

Published on: 10 May, 2022

Chile’s new constitution

With less than three months to go to finish it, support for the Convention has dropped steadily – by 10% in just the last week ..

Published on: 14 April, 2022

Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act

Attempts to pass federal laws condemning and punishing lynching have been made and rejected in Congress since 1900.    

Published on: 30 March, 2022

Indigenous/Vatican-Canada

The system removed about 150,000 indigenous children from their families and brought them to Christian residential schools run on behalf of the federal government.

Published on: 29 March, 2022

Human trafficking in Iraq

Police say they’ve uncovered 60 organised crime gangs but the U.S. says the Iraqis are failing to meet minimum standards to eliminate human trafficking.  

Published on: 27 March, 2022

Virginia removes General Robert E. Lee’s statue

Statues honoring leaders of the pro-slavery Confederate side in the American Civil War have become a focus of protests against racism in recent years.

Published on: 8 September, 2021

Indian farmers’ eight months protest 

The farmers say they want to teach the Bharatiya Janata Party a lesson.

Published on: 5 September, 2021

The unsettled question of the Brazilian indigenous tribes

The Amazon rainforest isn’t the only place where indigenous people are under attack from land grabbers and loggers.

Published on: 22 August, 2021

Violations against children in conflict ‘alarmingly high’: UN

In its annual Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) report, released on Monday, the UN said at least 19,379 children affected by war in 2020 were ..

Published on: 22 June, 2021

UNITAR/NCD/THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW …

HIGH- LEVEL PANEL CALLS ON IMMEDIATE ACTION ON NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF COVID-19

Published on: 26 May, 2021