Human Rights in the World
See video here (8’30”) By Valérie Gauriat Euronews (30.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3ucvIgz – The port of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, is a major hub for tourism. It’s also host to a different kind of traveller. Every night, police and...
Human Rights in the World
By Binoy Kampmark International Policy Digest (24.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3vg8DJV – The very word is chilling, but has become normalised political currency in Denmark. Since 2010, the Danish government has resorted to generating “ghetto lists” marking...
Human Rights in the World
HRWF with Moscow Times (24.04.2021) – Russia has declared the leading independent news website Meduza a “foreign agent,” the Justice Ministry announced on 23 April amid what critics call the Kremlin’s continuing crackdown on free speech. A statement on...
Human Rights in the World
By Chantal Da Silva Euronews (21.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3xf0dEq – Danish authorities have been accused of putting the futures of dozens of refugee children at risk by threatening to expel them to Syria, despite warnings that it is not safe to do...
Human Rights in the World
Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia occupy four of the top five positions globally according to data from Amnesty International. People executed by Riyadh (down 85%) and Baghdad (down 50%) are decreasing. Dizzying increase in Cairo of more than 300%. The global figure...
Human Rights in the World
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that an article of the Commissioner for Human Rights Act is unconstitutional, meaning Ombudsman Adam Bodnar – who repeatedly pointed out the government backsliding on the rule of law, freedom of the press, and democratic...