Women in Mexico are waging a fervent battle against the huge upsurge in gender-based violence and the impunity surrounding too many cases of femicide.Read the full article
Atahualpa Blanchet:“The declaration by Mercosur human rights ministers on artificial intelligence stands as a guiding light in the search for a fair balance between technological innovation and the protection of rights.”Read the full article
“The work of a caregiver is no joke. We make all other work possible, and we work not only with our hands but with our hearts, because the people under our care also deserve love, respect and dignity.”Read the full article
At the same time as consideration is being given to extending our expiry date as workers, there are people in the last stage of their careers who simply cannot find a job.Read the full article
Giulia Massobrio:“Since 2018, the ITUC has been calling for a new social contract in line with SDG 8. This contract includes six demands that are crucial to achieving truly sustainable development: from rights-based and climate-friendly jobs to wage justice and greater democracy in global [...]Read the full article
“The whole idea of strategic litigation is not just important from the perspective of winning victories. It is also important from the perspective of our experience in Europe being written into official records of state courts.”Read the full article
Martin Léna:“The solutions we seek to provide to the climate crisis must not and cannot be disconnected from social justice and human rights. Those who are most vulnerable to climate change, and who are also the least responsible for it, are equally threatened by the false solutions put forward which claim [...]Read the full article
The Maricas Bolivia Movement, which has been occupying the media and the public space for over 10 years, fights not only against homophobia and transphobia in Bolivian society, Indigenous communities included, but also against white hegemony in the social imaginary of the institutional LGBTQI+ [...]Read the full article
Many fear that France’s planned use of algorithmic video surveillance (AVS) for the 2024 Paris Olympics will infringe on civil liberties and lead to widespread mass surveillance beyond the event.Read the full article
Two years ago figures in the reparations movement helped set up a task force to come up with a series of recommendations to compensate Californians who are descendants of enslaved Africans and African Americans and right the wrongs caused by [...]Read the full article
Since 2022, Poland has been presenting itself as a land of solidarity, having welcomed 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. This solidarity stands in stark contrast with the reality faced by the people crossing the Bialowieza Forest as migrants and refugees from non-European [...]Read the full article
Abdeslam Marfouk:Despite the increase in absolute terms, the number of international migrants is still a very small fraction of the world population: 3.6 per cent in 2020, compared to 2.5 per cent in 1960. This means that 97 out of every 100 people in the world today still live in their country of [...]Read the full article
Not registered with the nationality committees set up to take a census of Kuwait’s inhabitants when the country gained independence in 1961, those known in Arabic as the ‘Bidoon’ are now undocumented in their own country.Read the full article
Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo:While the world focuses on Ukraine, unprecedented funding shortages and shrinking migration pathways leave Africans stranded.Read the full article
While South Africa has some of the continent’s most progressive laws on LGBTQ+ rights, LGBTQ+ South Africans still face significant social stigma and violence and struggle to find their place.Read the full article
From 1926 to 1972, Pro Juventute, a private foundation, forcibly separated 600 Yenish children from their parents with the backing of the Swiss government. Fifty years later, this community of Travellers still suffers from the impact of this racist policy while those responsible have yet to [...]Read the full article
Violence against farmers and restrictive land permits, combined with changing weather patterns, are negatively impacting harvest productivity and the lives of cultivators in Palestine.Read the full article
Living on the fringes of Afghan society, the Jogi, nomads from Central Asia, are trapped in a highly precarious situation. For some years now, this community has been fighting for greater integration.Read the full article
In September, California governor Gavin Newsom signed ground-breaking new legislation allowing people who have committed a crime to apply to have their records expunged. A first of its kind in the United States, the law comes as a relief to hundreds of thousands of former inmates who struggle [...]Read the full article
Selma Dabbagh:“Today, on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Committed Against Journalists, we at the ICJP are calling for all crimes against journalists to be investigated. Impunity for must end and justice must be served.”Read the full article
The economic situation has grown worse with the pandemic and the restrictions on women’s rights have been tightened since Ebrahim Raisi became president in 2021. Poorer and with very limited opportunities, Iran’s women are calling for equal rights, and their demands and grievances are resonating [...]Read the full article
Riadh Ezzawech has devoted his life to the practice and dissemination of stambeli, a musical genre born centuries ago with the arrival in Tunisia of enslaved people from Sub-Saharan Africa. In the last four decades, much has changed and, today, stambeli is in serious danger of becoming [...]Read the full article
It is estimated that there are 12 million refugees with disabilities around the world. At higher risk of violence, exploitation and abuse, they are among the most vulnerable groups of refugees.Read the full article
Fuelled by politicians and amplified by social media algorithms, hate speech is proliferating online across South Asia. Inflammatory posts garner thousands of views before they are taken down, with offline, sometimes deadly consequences.Read the full article
After more than four decades of fighting for the freedom of their people, the Sahrawis are now tending to put individual wellbeing and the fundamental rights of the population before the collective struggle.Read the full article
In Europe, growing awareness of the social inequalities in exposure to air pollution is as yet to be translated into public policy, despite the work being done by scientists and citizens to analyse and raise consciousness about the impact on the most exposed [...]Read the full article
This photo essay is an immersive insight into the transgender communities of Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India, a testament to the day-to-day struggles and resilience of transgender women.Read the full article
Despite facing racism and discrimination, close to 500,000 Haitian migrants try to survive in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican government has made the fight against undocumented migration one of its priorities.Read the full article
In Spain, the Fundación Secretariado Gitano reports an average of 300 cases of antigypsyism every year. Roma men and women are denied employment, housing or even entry to leisure or entertainment venues because they are Roma, due to the perpetual presumption of [...]Read the full article
How pioneers in Nepal and Zimbabwe are developing the digital infrastructure to preserve and revitalise their languages, and thus, improve access to their culture online.Read the full article
Manuella Libardi:Given the amount of research that shows how ineffective punitive laws are in curbing the number of abortions women carry out, it is difficult to imagine any other reason that they exist, other than to keep women out of the workforce and in [...]Read the full article
“If, thanks to my texts, just one little girl were able to say to herself, “So, it is possible”, then I will have contributed to building a female identity in Burkina Faso.”Read the full article
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the discrepancy between the pivotal social, economic and public health role of India’s sanitation workers and the fact that they “remain at the bottom of society”.Read the full article
UNESCO estimates that half of all languages spoken today will disappear by the end of this century if nothing is done, as speakers face pressures to abandon their native tongue in favour of dominant languages and dialects.Read the full article
“For decades women have struggled and have ultimately been able to gain rights such as voting, the right to stand for elections [passive suffrage], education, property and work. But women are now once again being forced back into the private [...]Read the full article