by admin_HRWF | Feb 17, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
By Clotilde Armand Financial Times (12.02.2020) – https://on.ft.com/2SV6S34 – When EU leaders meet next week about the bloc’s next seven-year budget they will be trying to solve a €1tn riddle based on a series of misconceptions. The budget...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 13, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
MADRID (7 February 2020) – Spain is utterly failing people in poverty, whose situation now ranks among the worst in the EU, said the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, at the end of his official visit to the country. ...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 12, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
Asia News (11.02.2020) – http://bit.ly/2Hh6arE – The former high-ranking diplomat, who will run for a conservative party in a Seoul constituency, is critical of the Moon Jae-in administration. If elected he will work for Korean unification. Over the past...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 12, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
RFA (05.02.2020) – http://bit.ly/31K1Zy3 – Despite the novel coronavirus (nCoV) epidemic in China, North Korean workers who returned home for the Lunar New Year holiday are returning across the border in large groups, sources familiar with the situation...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 11, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
A lawyer from Kosovo filed a criminal complaint against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, accusing him of spreading hatred by claiming that a 1999 massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo was fabricated. By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 11, 2020 | Human Rights in the World
By Martin Banks International Policy Digest (06.02.2020) – https://bit.ly/386BIfK – In its national human rights report presented at the UN earlier this month, Spain claimed that its legislation concerning detainees’ rights has been in line with European...
