“HKCTU plays an important role and we are part of the movement, so in supporting the young protesters we are also supporting ourselves,” says Carol Ng, chairperson of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU).Read the full article
The tale of a Syrian refugee in Lebanon.Read the full article
“Activists can hold financial institutions accountable for investing in human rights abuses, and those who profit from misery can be hit where it hurts – in the wallet.”Read the full article
“Our hands are clean. We haven’t committed any crime. Our ‘crime’ was to report the truth and to put the media at the disposal of the people and their needs. And the price has been jail, censorship and exile, as witnessed by the 80 or so journalists currently in [...]Read the full article
The Egyptian army is using drones, cameras and new technologies to prevent riots and terrorist attacks in the stadiums. But some groups of supporters known for their political chants are also being targeted by exclusionary measures.Read the full article
“Suddenly, demonstrations were banned, and there were serious violations of freedom of expression. Thousands of people have been sent to prison for messages they published on social media, accused of belonging to or spreading propaganda for terrorist [...]Read the full article
“How can the state defend the rape, beating and killing of the very people it is meant to protect?”Read the full article
The surge in drug use and deaths due to overdose, as well as the proliferation of drug trafficking and human rights violations all point to the failure of the UN’s drug control policies, according to specialists and human rights groups.Read the full article
“During the Soviet Union, the authorities were afraid of bad publicity. But now they’ve got nothing to lose.”Read the full article
The LGBTQI community in Tunisia, although still facing imprisonment, beatings and insults, is organising and slowly making headway with the cause of sexual minorities.Read the full article
Over the years, Zanu-PF has repeatedly undermined any attempts by trade unions to advocate for workers, doing everything from under-resourcing the Ministry of Labour to using state security agents to brutally suppress the work of trade [...]Read the full article
“Meek Mill’s case is about more than one man and one bad judge. It’s representative of a much larger pattern of black and brown people whose first unjust interaction with police results in being at the mercy of the courts and parole officers for [...]Read the full article
