Rayan, the Moroccan 5-Year-Old, and the Unspoken Miseries of a Media Show
After 13 days of superhuman effort, the Spanish rescuers, including a team of miners with expertise in underground rescue, failed.
Stealing Innocence: The Theft of Refugee Children in Sweden
A report, based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch in Sweden from January 25 to February 8, 2016 identifies key shortcomings in the Swedish child welfare system.
“Godi Media” in Modi’s India: A War on Journalists?
our weeks after Amnesty International was forced to halt is operations in India in September 2020, citing the Indian government’s crackdown on civil society, the UK-based human rights organization published a report warning of a coordinated effort to target journalists and activists in India and Kashmir, specifically those critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Swedish Foreign Policy: Ideological Façade and Dysfunctional Reality
This profile area also includes values such as gender equality, respect for human rights, sustainable development, low corruption, and use of new technologies, and it can therefore be used in different ways to create trust in international contexts.
Apartheid Reports Brand Israel as Criminal Enterprise
Coming on the heels of similar analyses by Human Rights Watch and by the Israeli rights organization B’tselem, the Amnesty International report does not simply point to violations of various human rights.
Revisiting Nusrat Ghani’s Islamophobia Claims
The new 'dangerous type,' she claims, is the one who wears a suit and preaches about human rights/social justice.
Permission to Narrate: How Israel Targets Its Native Palestinian Population
In October 2021, the Israeli authorities classified six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist, including Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and the Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP), which campaign for the rights of Palestinian prisoners.
Chilean Adoptees in Sweden Searching for their Roots and Waiting for Justice
Against a backdrop of torture and disappearances which alerted the world to human rights violations in the country, the Pinochet dictatorship sought to embellish its image.
Israeli Education: Denationalizing the Indigenous Palestinian Minority
Education is a human right.
Germany’s Unchecked Arms Exports: Does Morality Matter?
Baerbock added that arms exports should not only be considered economically, but that it is also a question of "foreign policy, human rights and international relations.
Sudan’s Transition to a Civilian Democracy Is Proving to Be Painful
The Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the current deputy head of the Sovereignty Council, have committed gross violations of human rights during the democratic protests.
Are China and Russia Near a Full-Blown Alliance?
In an essay entitled ‘Respecting People’s Democratic Rights’, written jointly by the ambassadors of Beijing and Moscow in Washington, Qin Gang and Anatoly Antonov wrote in the National Interest magazine that the democracy summit was “an evident product of (US’s) Cold-War mentality,” which “will stoke up ideological confrontation and a rift in the world, creating new ‘dividing lines’.
Tunisia at a Crossroads: Either Tyranny or Democracy Lies Ahead
Large sections of ordinary, apolitical citizens in Tunisia have not been especially bothered or concerned with the human rights violations perpetrated by the Saied regime.
Wagner Group Strengthens Its Hold in Africa
In a statement, the Western nations warned that the deployment of Wagner mercenaries could "lead to an aggravation of the human rights situation in Mali threaten the agreement for peace and reconciliation" in the conflict-torn country.
The Hindutva War on Christians in India
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Notably, the Modi government has not only refused to condemn calls for genocide and violent attacks against religious minorities, but also has signalled its support for anti-Christian attitudes in recently blocking Missions for Charity, a Catholic-based charity associated with human rights icon and Nobel laureate recipient Mother Teresa, from receiving international dominations in response to allegations it is forcibly converting Hindus to Catholicism, therefore cutting off a major source of funding for desperately impoverished and disabled Indians.
How Intelligence Agencies Turned into Foreign Policy Tools
This commercial relationship could also breach fundamental human rights and freedoms.
Macron, the Gulf, and Islam
Yet, a few days later, a report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) highlighted the dark side of the regime and Paris’s complicity in it.
Another Sakoku? Japan’s Ongoing Stagnation Is Closing the Country
Left-leaning media and human rights organizations are also targeted for abuse, and branded as “anti-Japanese” – a situation strikingly similar to the wartime years.
“Racism is not an opinion, it is a criminal act!” – An Interview with Tareq Alaows on Political Representation in Germany
I furthered my work in the humanitarian field, which I had started much earlier in Syria and continued here in Germany.
Europe’s Syrian Slumber
Read: The Syrian Conflict 10 Years On: Who is in Control and What are the Possible Scenarios?European countries, along with the United States, and a long list of Arab countries, are unable to solve the huge humanitarian crisis in Syria, and some would rather revert to the pre 2011 revolution status quo.
