Human Rights

TRAPS. People in extreme poverty, even with social assistance, are unlikely to be able to leave their condition. Source : Rosa Chávez Yacila – OjoPublico A wide range of scientific evidence refutes the assumption that people are poor because they…

Under the slogan “Not in my name”, this coming Saturday 26 March, at 12 noon, a rally will take place in Madrid outside the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in protest against the agreement between President Pedro Sánchez and the…

A change in the definition of small farmers by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) means that their share of global food production now appears to be a lot smaller than before. Civil society organisations and…

World Water Day is celebrated on March 22nd. This date was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1992. It aims to raise awareness about the overall global water crisis and the need to implement urgent solutions to solve…

The international initiative Unitaid announced on Friday 18 that it will fund the introduction in Brazil and South Africa of an innovative, “highly effective and long-lasting” injectable HIV preventive treatment. The new long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) treatment “could have a…

Many journalists, these days, prefer to remain anonymous in Ukraine. And from some of them now comes this story: One of the most well-known and popular journalists in Ukraine was yesterday arrested by the officers of the Security Service of…

If you watch the television news for very long, you realize the disequilibrium from images of destruction that focus on objects, without much regard for the “subjects” being threatened, destroyed. This understanding comes with a realization that just as we…

Press conference On the eve of a vital UN moment for biodiversity, “nature-based solutions” are once again wrongly touted as the solution. Nature-based solutions” promote the illusion that plants and soils can undo the damage to the climate caused by…

We all recognize the escalating violence that plagues our planet. It is not something new. Violence has always been there because it is inherent in the system we live in.  At times we are shaken by the spectacle of war,…

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has urged the Moroccan authorities to immediately release Yahya Mohamed Elhafed Iaazza, the oldest Saharawi political prisoner in Western Sahara, who is serving a 15 year sentence. Yahya Mohamed, 55 years…