Tag: Human rights
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…
More than 600 North Korean defectors sent back by China to North Korea
Hundreds of North Korean defectors in China have been sent back to their home countries. This is what human rights defense associations in South Korea are denouncing. During the Covid…
the writer Roberto Saviano in court, accused of having defamed Giorgia Meloni
In 2020, in Italy, Roberto Saviano protested, as part of a television program, against the migration policy carried out by the Salvini government with the support of far-right leader Giorgia…
the incomprehension of 11 magistrates dismissed for “failures in the duty of their office”
In the Central African Republic, eleven magistrates were dismissed from the judiciary by two presidential decrees signed Tuesday by President Touadéra, for “lack ofments to the duty of their office…
HRW denounces authorities’ abuses to silence criticism of exiles abroad
Human Rights Watch publishes this Tuesday, October 10, an edifying report on the extraterritorial repression carried out by Rwanda. In this document of around a hundred pages, the NGO asserts…
Crisis in the hospital sector: “Patients are made to wait at home with antibiotics”
In a column published by the newspaper The world, more than a thousand caregivers, nurses, midwives and hospital doctors are sounding the alarm about the state of emergencies in hospitals…