Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis on Unsplash The failure to evacuate UK citizens in the Sudan by the UK Government and Foreign Office should come as no surprise to UK residents living overseas, writes Sara Page. It may however come as a bit of a shock to passport holders in the UK. For some very strange reason neither the…
Photo by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash Currently, taking into account the requirements of the time, within the framework of reform of the constitution, the Basic Law of Uzbekistan is being updated by two thirds. As a result of public discussions more than 220 thousand proposals were received to improve the current Constitution, based on the study of which…
Ukrainian children need help from around the world because of aggression by the Russian Federation. The war unleashed by the Russian Federation against Ukraine which has been characterised by extreme cruelty and the suffering of civilians. To date, more than 77,000 facts of war crimes by the Russian army have been logged in Ukraine. This…
Photo by Aleksandra Dementeva on Unsplash The News Agency APA reports that the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations has presented a new report on violations of human rights and freedoms in Armenia. The report contains detailed information on cases of violation of human rights and freedoms, ill-treatment of civilians, people detained during demonstrations, and criminal cases against…
During this years’s Taiwan Gender Equality Week (TGEW) a seminar was held in New York City on the subject “Promoting Gender Equality in the Digital Age.” Co-hosted by Palau and Saint Lucia, the event was held at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in New York during the 67th session of the U.N. Commission…
Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash Justyna Wydrzyńska, a women’s rights defender, was sentenced to eight months community service for helping a woman in need obtain an abortion. She is a member of the Abortion Dream Team, an abortion rights organisation. In 2020, she helped a woman in an abusive relationship to access abortion pills. The woman’s husband…
Russia continues to violate the laws and customs of war on a massive scale, constantly shelling civilian infrastructure and demonstrating cruel treatment of prisoners of war. In the last few days alone, the Russian army has massively shelled residential houses and civilian infrastructure in many settlements in Ukraine-controlled territory of Donetsk Region. On 13 March,…
Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash The international community received evidence that Russia violated all possible taboos at the level of international law and the rules and customs of warfare in early April 2022, when the Ukrainian army liberated the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions of Ukraine. Foreign journalists and human rights defenders have received many indications that…
Photo by Sinitta Leunen on Unsplash MEPs from across the political divide insist that the European Union should ratify the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, in line with a 2021 Court of Justice opinion. The EU signed the Istanbul Convention in 2017 and signalled its commitment to eradicating gender-based violence. However, the EU ratification process has been stuck…
Photo by Rumman Amin on Unsplash Campaign group ENAR says it welcomes the appointment of Marion Lalisse as the new EU Anti-Muslim hatred Coordinator following the vacancy of the position of over a year and a half. Although it says the EU has one of the strongest legal frameworks on human rights in the world, Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim hatred “continues…
