Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Organisations

***News Conference Invitation***

Human Rights Watch is pleased to invite you to a news conference via Zoom from Geneva at 10:00 a.m. CST on Monday, February 1, 2021,…

29 January, 2021

Migrants

“We hear harrowing first-hand accounts of brutality and abuses that refugees and migrants suffer along the routes towards the Mediterranean. Many fall prey to traffickers…

27 January, 2021

COVID & The Labour Markets

These massive losses resulted in an 8.3 per cent decline in global labour income (before support measures are included), equivalent to US$3.7 trillion or 4.4…

25 January, 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

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee Rights Program

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee Rights Program defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced people worldwide.

20 January, 2021

Peru: Police used unnecessary and excessive force when dealing with protests

“International law is clear: people have the right to peaceful assembly, and gatherings can only be dispersed in exceptional cases,” said UN High Commissioner for…

12 January, 2021

UN Birthday

London was the first temporary seat of the UN, hosting the first General Assembly meeting and then the first Security Council session in Jan 1946

10 January, 2021

***News Conference Invitation***

Human Rights Watch World Report 2021 Threats to Human Rights in More Than 100 Countries

7 January, 2021

MENA Report on Internal Displacement

IDMC – Qatar Charity virtual launch of MENA Report on Internal Displacement, Second week of February 2021

3 January, 2021

US: Protect Cameroonians from Deportation

TheUnited States government should protect all Cameroonians in the United States from deportation because of serious threats to their safety in Cameroon, Human Rights Watch…

20 December, 2020

IRC Report on Yemen

The report says the worst humanitarian crises of 2021 are those that have been neglected by the international community.

16 December, 2020