Category: Lifestyle

Criticizing the authorities publicly has led to intimidation, movement restrictions and arbitrary arrests, while some citizens there have been charged with defamation and others prosecuted under national security laws.     🇮🇶#Iraq: Free speech in Kurdistan Region increasingly curtailed over past year. Critics faced intimidation, restrictions on movements & arbitrary arrests + some were also charged with defamation, while others were prosecuted… Read More

“We are deeply distressed by the excessive and unlawful use of force by police and members of the ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Riot Squad) against peaceful demonstrators, human rights defenders and journalists across Colombia”, they said on Friday.  Reports of killings, sexual violence, torture  The protests, which began on 28 April with a general strike over proposed tax reforms, continued despite an… Read More

“LGBTI people are often exposed to additional stigma, discrimination and violence, including when seeking medical services – and perhaps saddest of all, within their own families during lock-downs”, the High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, said in her message for the day, on Monday.   “They are also in some places being treated as scapegoats for the spread of the virus”, she added,… Read More