Human Rights

“It Isn’t Easy Being a Journalist in Kashmir”

By Bisma Bhat
My name is Bisma Bhat and I am a journalist in Srinagar, Kashmir. I currently work as a features writer at Free Press Kashmir, a weekly magazine.

Three Key Questions for Understanding Shifts in Global Poverty

By Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted to middle-income countries (for example here, here, and here).

Power of Connection & Collaborations to Fight Modern-day Slavery

By Sania Farooqui
The Covid-19 pandemic affected countries and people globally, at the same time exacerbated vulnerabilities such as modern-day slavery. There are over 40.3 million people estimated to be in modern-day slavery, and certain population groups, sectors and geographies such as children, migrant workers, women and girls that were already vulnerable, became more vulnerable to recruitment and exploitation during the pandemic. The United Nations has called the pandemic more than a health crisis, “it is an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and a human rights crisis.”

Inconsistent Laws Perpetuate Unsafe Online Spaces for Children & Young People

By Amanda Manyame
The internet and digital technology have allowed children and young people to connect, exchange knowledge and information, and truly turn the world into a global village.

Conversation with a Media Icon: Dr. Roberto Savio

By Mushahid Hussain
We are sitting in the heart of Rome, Via Panisperna, where Dr. Roberto Savio has had his office for the last 58 years. His energy and activity, both mental and physical, belies his age. At 87, he walks the 7 kilometres from his house to his office building and climbs two flights of stairs to reach his office. When I caution him about the traffic on the roads of Rome as he walks home every evening, he is very relaxed about it. “Look here, Rome is over 2,000 years old, and these roads were meant for pedestrians, not cars.”

Long-haul SADC Action Needed to Counter Mozambican Insurgency and Humanitarian Crisis

By Kevin Humphrey
Ongoing insecurity and an unfolding humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique need a strategically planned response to deal decisively with the insurgency that has plagued the area since October 2017.

It is Time for a More Inclusive & Democratic UN

By Frank Habineza, Susanne Menge, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad and Angela Brown Burke
The global challenges we face are too complex for governance as usual. It is high time to strengthen the United Nations’ (UN) democratic and participatory character.

Is it Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?

By Thalif Deen
A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations—an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?

Increased Investment Critical to End Female Genital Mutilation as COVID-19 Rages On

By Catherine Russell and Natalia Kanem
“Multiple overlapping crises are putting millions of girls at increased risk of female genital mutilation. “Countries already grappling with rising poverty, inequality and conflict are seeing the COVID-19 pandemic further threaten years of progress to end the practice, creating a crisis within a crisis for the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized girls.

‘End Leprosy Discrimination Now, For the Sake of Our Children’

By Oluwatobi Enitan
Seidu Ishaiku lives in the hope that his children will succeed. He and his family live with about 300 other residents in the Alheri leprosy colony outside Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory Abuja.

A Clash of Alms

By Neville de Silva
Driven by unprecedented hardship to pass round the begging bowl, Sri Lanka has become the centre of a tussle between Asia’s two superpowers.

U.S. to Russia: Do as We Say, Not as We Do

By Norman Solomon
Hidden in plain sight, the extreme hypocrisy of the U.S. position on NATO and Ukraine cries out for journalistic coverage and open debate in the USA’s major media outlets. But those outlets, with rare exceptions, have gone into virtually Orwellian mode, only allowing elaboration on the theme of America good, Russia bad.

Downstream from Del Rio

By Peter Costantini
The specters of slave patrols and Ku Klux Klan night riders haunted the viral videos. They showed cowboy-hatted Border Patrol agents on horseback insulting and threatening Haitian families with children as they crossed the Rio Grande into Texas. The outrage reverberated around the world and inside the Beltway. But the story soon disappeared from the news cycle.

Myanmar’s Military Junta is Killing Press Freedom

By Shawn W. Crispin
One year since a democracy-suspending coup, press freedom is dying in Myanmar. A military campaign of intimidation, censorship, arrests, and detentions of journalists has more recently graduated to outright killing, an escalation of repression that aims ultimately to stop independent media reporting on the junta’s crimes and abuses.

Tap Community to Stop Human Trafficking, says Survivor

By Zadie Neufville
A single line at the end of the United States State Department 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report made headlines in Jamaica and had many perturbed. “Some police allegedly facilitated or participated in sex trafficking,” it read.

Attacking Iran is a Recipe for a Catastrophe

By Alon Ben-Meir
Regardless of a success or failure to reach a new agreement with Iran, Israel must not attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and must work closely with the US to develop a joint strategy to curb Iran’s ambition to acquire nuclear weapons and potentially end the conflict with Iran on a more permanent basis

Sasakawa’s Epoch-Making Quest to End Discrimination of Leprosy Affected People

By Cecilia Russell
For the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, Yohei Sasakawa, ensuring affected peoples’ human rights is fundamental to the campaign to eradicate the disease.

Why isn’t a Career in Politics Aspirational for Girls and Women in India?

By Shevika M
For most young girls, a career in politics is not even on the radar. For the few that are interested, building a career in politics in India seems unachievable.

Boys Sold by Trusted Villager Turned Human Trafficker

By Mehru Jaffer
Friends Ajay and Durgesh were lured from the same village in the remote and poverty-stricken countryside of eastern Uttar Pradesh (UP) in January 2021.

A Special Adviser to Probe Racism and Discrimination at UN

By Thalif Deen
“Racism and discrimination have no place in our world -- least of all at the United Nations”, warns UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will soon appoint a Special Adviser to investigate the growing discrimination based on racial, national or ethnic origins in the world body.

Battle for Palestine: & the Day When David Felled Goliath with a Stone

By Thalif Deen
When Israeli Ambassador Gilat Erdan made an unusual presentation before the Security Council last week displaying a large rock, which he claimed, was hurled at Israeli vehicles in the Occupied Territories, a reporter at a UN press conference asked whether Palestinians will be given the right of reply--- by displaying in the Security Council chamber an Uzi sub- machine gun or a bulldozer deployed by Israeli armed forces against civilian demonstrations.
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