This year, with the coronavirus affecting nations the world over and domestic governments increasingly focusing their efforts on keeping the virus at bay at home, taking this opportunity to remember and raise awareness for the plight of refugees has never been so important. … Read more →
Last week, within 24 hours of each other, both Amazon and Microsoft pledged not to sell facial recognition tools to US police departments, acknowledging the concerns of researchers and activists who say the technology is biased and has grave potential for misuse. Their statements came just days … Read more →
The latest development surrounding human rights abuses of migrant workers employed to build Qatar’s FIFA World Cup stadiums has seen Pakistan take up worker payment issues with Qatar. The Pakistan Embassy in Doha has raised the case of large numbers of Pakistani workers going unpaid with Qatar’s Ministry of Labor. … Read more →
One of the Philippines’ most prominent journalists, Maria Ressa, is facing up to six years in prison after she was found guilty today, 15 June, of “cyber libel” charges, a verdict condemned as setting “an extraordinarily damaging precedent” for press freedoms in the region. … Read more →
Sudan, a country undergoing a delicate transition after toppling their long standing dictator last year, is now facing an entirely different enemy: COVID-19. Humanitarian workers and medical personnel working in Darfur’s overpopulated camps for displaced persons … Read more →
Today is the World Day Against Child Labour. As with so many other things in the context of a world riddled with coronavirus, what might have been an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate progress is now overshadowed by the fear that this progress may all too quickly become unravelled. … Read more →
In new plans announced on Wednesday 10 June aimed at tackling online falsehoods connected to the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Commission mentions Beijing for the first time as a source of online disinformation linked to the coronavirus aimed at undermining Western democracies, sowing internal divisions and projecting a distorted view … Read more →
The long running saga surrounding the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar has continued. A new Amnesty report has found around 100 employees working on the construction of FIFA World Cup Stadiums in the country have remained unpaid for several months. … Read more →
Today 10 June, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report calling on the authorities in Turkey to halt the investigations into the physicians running the medical associations in Mardin, Urfa and Van provinces in eastern and southeastern Turkey. According to HRW, Turkish authorities … Read more →
Yemen is one of, if not the most, fragile country in the world at risk to be decimated by Covid-19, to a large extent because of Houthi mismanagement and a healthcare system already on its knees. Earlier this month, the UN renewed its worst-case scenario saying that the death toll from the virus could exceed the combined toll of war … Read more →