In a public statement issued on 21 August, a coalition of 11 Venezuelan and international human rights organisations urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish a Commission of Inquiry on Venezuela during its 42nd session in September 2019. In the statement, the organisations detailed why a UN Commission of Inquiry is the best … Read more →
At least seven journalists have been arrested in Turkey in the last week, continuing the trend of the Erdoğan regime suppressing media freedom. On August 19 Ziyan Karahan, the Kurdish-language editor of pro-kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency, was arrested at her home in Diyarbakir. Authorities told Karahan announced that she is detained due to her “journalistic … Read more →
On 21 August, the Trump administration announced a proposal to eliminate a federal court agreement that set a 20-day limit for holding children and replace it with a regulation that would allow the government to indefinitely detain migrant children with their parents. Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke tweeted on 21 August: “Thousands of kids separated … Read more →
On 31 October 2019 – despite the efforts of policy makers from all sides of the political spectrum – the UK is set to crash out of the European Union without a deal, leaving three million EU citizens currently living in the UK and one million Britons on the continent in limbo. The plan, or … Read more →
On Sunday 18 August, over 1.7 million people – a quarter of the population – gathered at a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong, amid increasingly severe warnings by Beijing. Activists and police have clashed over the past 11 weeks, but this weekend’s protest remained peaceful. Many protesters wore black, the colour now associated with the … Read more →
On 22 July, the governor of Istanbul announced that all unregistered Syrians must leave the city by 20 August. At least 2,630 refugees have been removed since, many of whom say they have been sent back into the warzone in contravention of international law. The Turkish government says that the new ruling in Istanbul is … Read more →
It is no longer just about the hijab but a wider issue of freedom of freedom of expression. Since the 1979 revolution in Iran, women have been forced to wear the hijab in public. Back then, more than 100,000 women and men took to the streets to protest against the law and opposition to it … Read more →
According to the UN, over 4 million Venezuelans have now fled their nation in an unprecedented exodus putting stress on nations around Latin America. Many have ended up in the impoverished Catatumbo region in Colombia’s northeast where armed groups commit serious human rights violations. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian … Read more →
Rukban, an informal settlement for Syria’s displaced people in a US-protected zone in southern Syria, has been left without humanitarian aid for the past five months after the Syrian government blocked humanitarian access to the encampment through its territories. A total of 7,735 tents scattered along a stretch of desert on the Syrian-Jordanian border are … Read more →
On 30 July, the UN warned that the Syrian province of Idlib is at risk of becoming “the worst humanitarian disaster the world has seen so far this century,” as Russian-backed Syrian government forces continue a campaign against one of the last rebel hold outs. At least 450 civilians have been killed since late April, … Read more →
