Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Campaigns

Indian farmers’ eight months protest 

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

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.

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…

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

26 May, 2021

GUINEA/EBOLA OUTBREAK

Health officials in Guinea are to begin vaccinations to try to contain the region’s first Ebola epidemic since the 2014-2016 outbreak.

22 February, 2021

UN ENVIRONMENT REPORT

Environmental degradation is impeding progress towards ending poverty and hunger, reducing inequalities, and promoting sustainable economic growth, work for all, and peaceful and inclusive societies.

18 February, 2021

Press Release – World Cancer Day – The Defeat-NCD Partnership

The Defeat-NCD Partnership is a practical response to the widespread call for action on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Formally launched alongside the UN General Assembly in…

7 February, 2021

World Cancer Day

This World Cancer Day, it is vital we remember our moral responsibility to ensure health practitioners on the frontline of delivering care in low resource…

3 February, 2021

Inequality at its worst

Inequality at its worst: Vaccine doses should go to where they are needed, not only to where they can be afforded   By Hossam Elsharkawi, Regional…

24 January, 2021

Nuclear weapons are finally outlawed; next step is disarmament/By Robert Mardini Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross

The world’s nine nuclear-armed states have more than 13,000 nuclear bombs, with command-and-control networks vulnerable to human error and cyberattacks. The power of many of…

22 January, 2021