Tag: Human rights
In Iran, “Narges Mohammadi is given security treatment comparable to that of a terrorist”
Narges Mohammadi, winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, imprisoned in Tehran, ended the hunger strike that she had started two days earlier on Wednesday, November 8. After three refusals…
opening of the campaign for the presidential election
The campaign for the Egyptian presidential election officially opens this Thursday, November 9. The Sissi government has been promising a democratic, transparent election for months and calling for a massive…
HRW denounces abuses committed by jihadists and the army against civilians
A new report published Wednesday by Human Rights Watch shows how thousands of villagers are targeted both by armed jihadist groups on the one hand, and on the other by…
Amnesty justifies the right of Wet’suwet’en indigenous people to oppose the gas pipeline project
Amnesty International is calling on a Canadian court not to try a person from an indigenous nation whose trial begins on Monday, October 30. Part of the Wet’suwet’en community opposes…
Aborigines denounce the “shameful” result of the referendum on their rights
Aboriginal leaders have broken their self-imposed week-long silence to condemn the failure of the October 14 referendum, which proposed recognizing indigenous populations in the Australian Constitution and giving them more…
death of a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy in custody
A week after the massive rejection of a referendum aimed at giving more rights to Aboriginal people, a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy died on October 20 in a hospital in Perth,…
the CNIDH denounces the conditions of detention in the largest police station in Bujumbura
In Burundi, the Independent National Commission for Human Rights (CNIDH), considered by independent civil society and human rights NGOs as very close to power, has just made a splash for…
three lawyers of opponent Alexei Navalny arrested
Three lawyers of imprisoned opponent Alexeï Navalny were placed in pre-trial detention on Friday after searches by Russian security services in a case of “ extremism » punishable by heavy…
The UN renews the mandate of its special rapporteur in Burundi to the chagrin of Gitega
Three years after Evariste Ndayishimiye came to power, Burundi emerged from its voluntary isolation and this time hoped that the Human Rights Council would not renew the mandate of the…
UN launches fact-finding mission into human rights violations in Sudan
As the war in Sudan broke out almost six months ago, the Human Rights Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution on the establishment of a mission that will investigate and…