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Category: Human Rights

Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in municipal and international law.

 

The African human rights system is composed of several human rights treaties—or agreements between the African Union member states—and the mechanisms that monitor compliance with these treaties. … It also recognizes people’s rights, such as the right to development and self-determination.

Human Rights 

Stand in ‘firm solidarity’ with victims of violence based on religion or belief, urges UN chief

Village Reporter
During the day set aside to honour the victims who have lost their lives or suffered for exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief, Secretary-General António Guterres  issued a statement standing in “firm solidarity”. “Hate speech, online or offline, continues to fuel violence against vulnerable members of society, including ethnic and religious minorities,” he… Read More
Human Rights 

Rights experts urge Iran to end ‘systematic persecution’ of religious minorities

Village Reporter
The experts said they are deeply concerned at the increasing arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of members of the Baha’i faith, as well as the destruction or confiscation of their properties, “in what bears all the signs of a policy of systematic persecution”.  These acts were not isolated, they added, but formed part of a broader policy to target any… Read More
Human Rights 

Saudi Arabia: UN calls for release of woman sentenced to 34 years in prison for tweeting

Village Reporter
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, expressed outrage on Friday over a prison sentence spanning more than three decades handed down to a Saudi woman charged with following and retweeting so-called dissidents and activists. Doctoral student Salma Al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in jail, followed by a 34-year travel ban in connection with a series of tweets and retweets… Read More
Human Rights 

Israel urged to allow humanitarians to continue working in Palestine

Village Reporter
On Thursday morning, Israeli Forces broke into, searched and sealed the offices of seven Palestinian human rights and humanitarian organizations³ in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Their property was confiscated and destroyed and military orders closing the offices were left at the premises. The attempted closures of the 7 NGO offices this morning affect all institutions working to promote… Read More
Human Rights 

First Person: ‘We are the hope, we are the power keeping Afghanistan together’

Village Reporter
“The first nights and days were especially horrible. Afghanistan was turning into chaos—people were running everywhere; offices were closing. It was all happening in front of my eyes. In 24 hours a democracy we worked for over a 20-year period crumbled. The first thought I had in mind was what is going to happen to the women of Afghanistan? What… Read More
Human Rights 

UN HIV/AIDS advocate and ‘proud champion’ of women dies at 92

Village Reporter
“She consistently called attention to the importance of addressing the needs of women, and of involving women directly in making and carrying out development policy, which she believed was particularly important for population policies and programmes,” UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on behalf of the UN chief. A native of Pakistan, she served as the Executive Director of the… Read More
Human Rights 

Mali: Security situation deteriorates, human rights concerns rise

Village Reporter
The soldiers, who were described by the Government of Mali as “mercenaries,” were part of logistical support operations for the nearly 12,000-strong mission, according to Abidjan. Malian justice authorities officially confirmed that after an incident, which occurred on on 10 July, the soldiers had been imprisoned under the charge of “attempting an attack on State security”. The arrests highlight the… Read More
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