Colombia's Atrato River Crisis: a Human Rights Emergency
A United Nations letter to Colombia warns that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin is causing a grave human rights crisis for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities By Steven Grattan A group of women, part of Asociacion Nuestra Casa Comun, or Our Community House Association, go by boat to an area destroyed by illegal mining, on the Quito River, the Atrato River’s main tributary, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Va
ABC 1
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Latvia's Possible Withdrawal From Domestic Violence Treaty
Women’s rights activists protest against Latvia’s possible withdrawal from domestic violence treaty By Claudia Ciobanu National flag flutters over Latvian central bank headquarters in Riga, Latvia April 9, 2019. Photo by Ints Kalnins/ Reuters WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Women’s rights activists taped their mouths shut at a demonstration Wednesday outside the Latvian parliament to protest the country’s possible withdrawal from an international treaty aimed at supporting women who ar
PBS News
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Iran Prisoners Hunger Strike Against Executions
By Stuart Williams Inmates detained inside one of Iran's largest prisons have for the last two days staged a sit-in protest and a hunger strike against the growing number of executions in the Islamic republic, rights groups said Wednesday. Ghezel Hesar is notorious for the large numbers of hangings inside the prison. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The protest at Ghezel Hesar prison in the city of Karaj outside Tehran was triggered by the transfer of up to 16 inmates to solitary con
Houthis rule: prisons, personality cult, pilfered aid
By Maggie Michael and Amr Alfiky . Yemenis who have fled the Houthi-controlled area of this divided country paint a grim picture of life under the militant group. People are forced to attend rallies and chant death to America and Israel, pay crippling taxes and hand children over to become soldiers, they say. A Yemeni man walks past buildings on the outskirts of Aden damaged during the civil war. The most populated areas of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, are controlled
Reuters
Oct 15
Sahel Countries: ICC Withdrawal Endangers Civilians
AU Should Urge Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger to Reconsider Leaving Court The leaders of Niger, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani (C), Mali, Col....
Human Rights Watch
Sep 29
Black Mississippi College Student Found Hanging in Tree
Hattiesburg attorney Vanessa Jones speaks at a press conference at Living Faith Miracle Temple Church of God in Christ in Grenada, Miss.,...
Mississippi Free Press
Sep 16
UK Lords on failure to try British in Yazidi Genocide
I will never forget my visit to Sinjar and Northern Iraq in 2019 or meeting with Yazidi survivors. Their harrowing stories are described...
Togo tight-lipped as Burkina jihadists infiltrate north
Lome (AFP) – Jihadists from Burkina Faso have stepped up their assaults on northern Togo since the beginning of the year, with the...
France 24
Aug 23
El Salvador extends mass gang detentions until 2027
The country faces an extension on gang detentions amidst constitutional reforms which abolished presidential term limits earlier this...
The Tico Times
Aug 19
NGOs challenge secret US-Eswatini deportee deal
COURT BATTLE Illustrative Image: Eswatini flag. (Photo: Freepik) | Handcuffed person (Photo: Istock) The Eswatini Litigation Centre, the...
Daily Maverick
Aug 15
Argentina's discrimination against Trans women
By Erika Noely Moreno, trans activist from Argentina 9 August 2025 Erika Noeli Moreno, a member of Las Historicas, leads an event at the...
Amnesty International
Aug 11
UN Security Council concerned over Druze conflict in Syria
By UN News, August 10th, 2025. © UNOCHA/Ali Haj Suleiman | A building burns in Sweida City in western Syria, as hostilities broke out...
United Nations
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