Why We Need a Digital Safe Space for LGBTQ Youth Thoughts from Asian Teens — Global Issues

Why We Need a Digital Safe Space for LGBTQ Youth Thoughts from Asian Teens — Global Issues

Students from a GSA-based primarily in Gyeonggi-do have a Lesbian Visibility Week meeting to discuss the role of GSAs in creating a supportive community for LGBTQ people. Opinion by Chaeeun Shin – Junwoo Na – Minchae Kang (seoul & nonthaburi, thailand) Monday, July 04, 2022 Inter Press Service Seoul & Nonthaburi,…

new suspected mass graves found in Tarhuna, says UN human rights probe — Global Issues

new suspected mass graves found in Tarhuna, says UN human rights probe — Global Issues

Speaking in Geneva, Mohamed Auajjar, chair of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, told journalists that a culture of impunity still prevailed across the war-torn country, representing “a great obstacle” to national reconciliation, truth and justice for the victims and their families. Regarding Tarhuna specifically, the report gathered testimonies and…

EUs Exclusionary Migration Policies Place People on the Move toward Europe at Greater Risk — Global Issues

EUs Exclusionary Migration Policies Place People on the Move toward Europe at Greater Risk — Global Issues

Opinion by Jan Servaes (brussels) Monday, July 04, 2022 Inter Press Service BRUSSELS, Jul 04 (IPS) – A mass attempt on June 24, 2022, of about 2000 African migrants to scale the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla left at least 37 people dead. Several human rights…

EUs Exclusionary Migration Policies Place People on the Move toward Europe at Greater Risk — Global Issues

UN human rights chief alarmed over killing of protesters by security forces — Global Issues

The High Commissioner said in a statement that the deaths had occurred, “even after the police had announced they would not use lethal force to disperse the demonstrators.” The protests in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere, marked the third anniversary of the major demonstrations that led to the overthrow of…

Rights experts urge lawmakers to adhere to women’s convention — Global Issues

Rights experts urge lawmakers to adhere to women’s convention — Global Issues

The UN women’s rights committee said that the US is one of only seven countries throughout the world that is not party to the international convention that protects women’s human rights, including their right to sexual and reproductive health. “The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) urges the United…

In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, Human Rights Council hears — Global Issues

In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, Human Rights Council hears — Global Issues

It comes as the top UN rights forum in Geneva agreed to Member States’ request for a rare Urgent Debate on the issue this Friday. Addressing the Council, Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said lack of opportunity and ailing mental health, was taking a terrible toll:…

EUs Exclusionary Migration Policies Place People on the Move toward Europe at Greater Risk — Global Issues

Ethiopia still in grip of spreading violence, hate speech and aid crisis — Global Issues

Kaari Betty Murungi, chair of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, was speaking on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.  The Commission had received reports last week of the killings in Western Oromia, as it continued its work investigating rights abuses linked to conflict…

EUs Exclusionary Migration Policies Place People on the Move toward Europe at Greater Risk — Global Issues

Shocking toll on children must be spur to action, says UN rights expert — Global Issues

Three months since his last update to the UN rights forum in Geneva, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews, said that he’d met youngsters who’d fled the country after suffering “irreparable harm”.  Empty seat  Myanmar – whose seat was empty in the Council –…

EUs Exclusionary Migration Policies Place People on the Move toward Europe at Greater Risk — Global Issues

Syria’s needs are at their highest ever, says top rights probe — Global Issues

According to the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, 14.6 million Syrians depend on humanitarian assistance, 12 million face acute food insecurity, and nine in 10 now live below the poverty line.  Just last month, humanitarians warned that the funds pledged for relief operations were too small to help, said Commission…

Renewing the Promise of Justice for the Gravest Crimes — Global Issues

Renewing the Promise of Justice for the Gravest Crimes — Global Issues

Peter Lewis Opinion by Peter Lewis (the hague, netherlands) Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Inter Press Service The HAGUE, Netherlands, Jun 29 (IPS) – The writer has been the Registrar of the International Criminal Court since April 2018.On 1 July 2022, the International Criminal Court (ICC) turns 20. The entry into force…