The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human rights in Canada issued a report on 10 December 2018 calling for sanctions on 19 Iranian top officials for their complicity in repression of Iranian civil society. The report highlights what it names ‘profiles of oppression; profiles of 19 Iranian regime officials that have targeted Iranian-Canadians. The center is … Read more →
The 10th December 2018 marks 70 years since the ratification of the Human Rights Declaration. The internationally binding document put human rights firmly at the front of the public conscience and moreover enshrined human rights in law. At the launch of the website dedicated to the declaration, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid … Read more →
Today marks the opening of the intergovernmental conference in Marrakech, Morocco, centered around the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The document is a wide-ranging framework for co-operation and sets out 23 objectives aimed at making global migration safer and more dignified for millions on the move. Canada and Germany are … Read more →
The International Observatory of Human Rights launches its human rights web TV content on the netgem.tv interactive platform on 10 December 2018 on the same day that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70. The Netgem platform broadcasts IOHR TV videos about human rights issues to TV audiences from over 20 countries across Europe, … Read more →
Yemen Peace Talks have begun in Stockholm, Sweden on 6 December, at a time when the humanitarian crisis reaches a peak as a result of the four-year-long conflict. An estimated 10,000 people are said to have died in the conflict, however a University of Sussex research project says that this figure is a vast underestimation, … Read more →
A group of almost 300 conservationists from 66 countries are appealing to Iran to free the group of environmentalists charged with spying earlier this year including Niloufar Bayani a Canadian permanent resident. The eight environmentalists have been charged with national security crimes including spying, which if they are convicted is a crime punishable by death … Read more →
The remaining 1,500 refugees still stuck in the infamous Calais ‘Jungle’ camp are being violently displaced by French police. A ‘Help Refugees’ census of 2016 counted 7,307 migrants at the camp and this figure was reported to have surged to 10,000 after the Brexit referendum. The destruction of camps has forced many of the refugees, … Read more →
After being stranded in Malaysia for almost 9 months, 37-year-old Syrian man, Hassan Al Kontar, has finally been granted asylum in Canada. Mr Al Kontar was stuck in Kuala Lumpur Airport from 7 March 2018 and on 1 October 2018 was subsequently detained in Malaysian immigration centres for a further 2 months, whilst awaiting a … Read more →
France has experienced one of the largest uprisings that it has seen for many years. Protests took place across the country on 24 November and began peacefully but were said to be infiltrated by far-right extremists. 106,000 people took part in protests across France, and of those 130 were arrested, 42 of those arrests taking … Read more →
85,000 children under the age of 5 have starved to death in the protracted Yemen conflict. The shocking figures come from a new report by Save the Children, that went on to conclude that an estimated 400,000 more children in Yemen are likely to suffer from malnutrition in 2018. Only last month the UN warned … Read more →
