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
While factory workers in Taiwan’s booming semiconductor industry serve as the backbone of its economy, the rights and dignity of these workers often take second place to company profits.Read the full article
In Mayotte, France’s 101st department, the state is stepping up its housing demolitions. The goal is to eliminate unsanitary housing. But its action has had serious consequences for thousands of people who have been driven out of their homes without anywhere else to [...]Read the full article
Marginally represented in the negotiations and side-lined during the transitional period that followed the revolution of December 2018, Sudanese women are ramping up their demands for equal rights in a bold move that challenges the patriarchal [...]Read the full article
“In many African countries humanist groups and individuals are working to make the wider public rediscover their own African humanist tradition – the concept of Ubuntu.”Read the full article
“AI registers by themselves won’t solve everything. Transparency is a necessary first step, but in the end, better AI governance requires a comprehensive approach.”Read the full article
Almost four years after the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights recognised the Ogiek’s ancient title of the Mau Forest and ruled that they should be allowed to return there, the Kenyan government is yet to implement this [...]Read the full article
Yannis Panagopoulos:Trade unions have a duty to provide effective support to the victims of violence and harassment, and take decisive action to prevent abusive behaviours.Read the full article
From Serbia to Bosnia, from Croatia to Slovenia, volunteers assisting refugees stranded along the Balkan route face animosity, obstruction and harassment.Read the full article
In 2018, after decades spent working and living under inhumane conditions, Ecuador’s abaca workers decided to demand their rights. Their initial victory in a court case against the Ecuadorian State and agro-industrial giant Furukawa represents an important step in the fight against modern [...]Read the full article
Experts agree that climate change is affecting mobility. However, the relationship between these two things is not straightforward, as it is often portrayed, but complex, multicausal and context specific.Read the full article
While the rejection of animal suffering remains the most deeply rooted and the most decisive conviction, anti-speciesism now also takes into account climate change caused by factory farming as well as infectious diseases of animal origin, zoonoses, of which the Covid-19 pandemic is the most [...]Read the full article
Ainu Indigenous leaders are aware that their ancestral knowledge is endangered: “We are being wiped out. In 30 years, we will all be Japanese”.Read the full article
“The Palestinian labour market continues to present a grim picture. Unemployment is rampant and protection is failing. Stifled by occupation, it can meet neither the needs nor the aspirations of the Palestinian people.”Read the full article
“No one should have to deal with racial abuse in any context, but when it happens at work employers have a responsibility to step in and make sure those responsible are held to account.”Read the full article
Given the lack of freedoms in most Arab countries, the debate on racism has mainly been held on social media. The majority of the people in these countries refuse to admit there is a problem with racial discrimination.Read the full article
Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, tens of thousands of immigrants seeking to join their families in the United States have been denied entry for reasons of health, security or economic protectionism.Read the full article
“There is this national fantasy of Portuguese exceptionalism which is maintained by silence and omission. We need to dismantle these fantasies that feed racism and justify exploitation and supremacist ideas.”Read the full article
There is a socially-charged element behind the success of sounds like reggaeton and artists like Bad Bunny. The new stars of the Spanish-language music scene played a leading role in the marches that shook Latin America in 2019 and their influence could be decisive in the upcoming US [...]Read the full article
MV Lee Badgett:While 29 countries now allow same-sex couples to marry, every country is still a developing country when it comes to the full inclusion of LGBT people.Read the full article
Kékéli Kpognon:“As long as the conversation on racism fails to go deeper than the self-congratulating assessment that ‘Europe has been doing better than the US in issues of race’, little will be done to tackle historical and structural racism across the [...]Read the full article
“One of the characteristics of this type of music lies in the subject matter is deals with, often linked to the poverty, violence and policy brutality that occur in their neighbourhoods.”Read the full article
Living in conditions that are often more precarious than the rest of the population and with much higher health risk factors, Indigenous peoples around the world know that their very survival is on the line if the coronavirus reaches their [...]Read the full article
“The term ‘CoronaJihad’ not only blames the Islamic community for the virus but also implies that with it the community is targeting the majority – the Hindus in India.”Read the full article