Rights expert urges Denmark and Greenland to examine colonial legacy’s impact — Global Issues

Rights expert urges Denmark and Greenland to examine colonial legacy’s impact — Global Issues

The development would represent a key measure to tackle past injustices and create a more inclusive society, said UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Cali Tzay, in a statement at the end of a 10-day visit to the two countries.  Inuit people comprise nearly 90…

New Approach to Atrocities Needed, Say Ukraine War Crimes Investigators — Global Issues

New Approach to Atrocities Needed, Say Ukraine War Crimes Investigators — Global Issues

War damage at a children’s facility in Ivanivka, Kherson. Investigators want changes in the way war crimes are investigated and prosecuted. Credit: Nychka Lishchynska by Ed Holt (bratislava) Friday, February 10, 2023 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Feb 10 (IPS) – As plans are announced to set up an international centre in…

Rights expert urges Italy to stop criminalizing activists saving migrant lives at sea — Global Issues

Rights expert urges Italy to stop criminalizing activists saving migrant lives at sea — Global Issues

Preliminary criminal proceedings opened last May in Sicily against 21 people charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration in connection with several search-and-rescue missions conducted between 2016 and 2017.  Those accused include four crew members of the Iuventa, a former fishing trawler credited with saving some 14,000 migrant lives in…

UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

UN aid convoys deliver lifesaving relief to Ukraine’s war-ravaged east — Global Issues

Medicines, roofing repair kits, bottled water and solar lamps were offloaded, highlighting the desperate plight of many thousands of people who are unable or unwilling to leave their homes, amid “regular” shelling attacks. On Thursday, a five-lorry inter agency convoy reached the town of Hulyaipole in the Zaporizhia region –…

UN child rights committee lauds Swiss asylum offer to Kurdish family — Global Issues

UN child rights committee lauds Swiss asylum offer to Kurdish family — Global Issues

“We welcome the timely action taken by Switzerland to suspend the children’s return to Bulgaria, in compliance with the Committee’s request for interim measures,” said Ann Skelton, a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). “We also welcome the decision to reassess these children’s situation and…

Rights experts call for probe into claim Catalan leaders were spied on — Global Issues

Rights experts call for probe into claim Catalan leaders were spied on — Global Issues

“Spanish authorities must conduct a full, fair, and effective investigation into these allegations, publish the findings and stop any unlawful interference into the fundamental rights of the Catalan minority activists in Spain,” they said in a statement.  Top leaders arrested  Following the October 2017 independence referendum, Spain arrested leaders of the…