Governments must prioritize children. Too often, governments speak of caring for children, but their budgets and policy priorities do not reflect that.
Britain’s early handling of the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst public health failures in UK history, with ministers and scientists taking a...
International law is not being neglected in relation to Israeli crimes against humanity and war crimes in Palestine, it is being ignored, by Israel of course...
Suicide is a major national public health issue in the United States. The country has one of the highest suicide rates among wealthy nations. Reports...
The United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, warned that by the end of 2021, the humanitarian crisis could displace half a million more Afghans as it called on...
The UN’s main human rights body has overwhelmingly voted to recognise the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right, and...
Recently, a Dutch court ruled that police can use ethnicity as one of the criteria for selecting people for checks at the border, a legal defeat that rights...
Racism and injustice express themselves in many ways, and one of those ways is certainly environmental. Part of the solution to this problem lies in the...
Over the years, the UAE has led a campaign of suppression against human rights activists and aid workers, arresting and forcibly disappearing them before...
Rather than using law enforcement means to address the horrible crimes of September 11, the Bush administration declared a “global war on terror” that...
The affluent countries should work on making the rules of the world economy fairer for the poorer countries: on removing trade barriers to their exports, on...
“We are deeply concerned that highly sophisticated intrusive tools are being used to monitor, intimidate and silence human rights defenders, journalists and...
A 7/7 survivor has told how she remembers the attack ‘as if it was yesterday’ as she spoke on the 16th anniversary of the London bombings which almost...
Gaza is occupied – it’s an open-air prison – regardless of the supposed unilateral disengagement staged by Ariel Sharon in 2005. One of the problems is that...
It took years of pressure and concerted lobbying from many civil society organisations, progressives and Muslim groups to finally convince Trudeau to...
Less than a month ago some incidents have occurred in the UK that shows human rights for all is still a myth in a country which claims to be respectful to...