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.

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 ..

Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act
Attempts to pass federal laws condemning and punishing lynching have been made and rejected in Congress since 1900.

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.

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.

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.

Indian farmers’ eight months protest
The farmers say they want to teach the Bharatiya Janata Party a lesson.

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.

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 ..

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
