Derechos Humanos

Today’s European Court of Human Rights judgment upholding a general ban on wearing full-face veils in public is deeply damaging, warned Amnesty International. It...

1) Israel  We mourn the killing of the three Israeli teenagers who went missing in the West Bank on 12 June. We extend our...

Los supervivientes de una tribu de América del Sur que resultó diezmada durante las décadas de los años 50 y 60 han llevado al...

La Federación de Comunidades Judías de España informa que la Comunidad Judía de Madrid (miembro de la FCJE) convoca una concentración silenciosa el martes 1 de julio...

GENEVE (30 juin 2014) – L’Experte indépendante des Nations unies sur la situation des droits de l’homme en République Centrafricaine, Marie-Thérèse Keita-Bocoum, a déclaré...

ABIDJAN, 27 June 2014 (IRIN) - The recent confirmation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that charges against Lauren Gbagbo still stand has reignited...

ERBIL, 27 June 2014 (IRIN) - Hospitals and clinics in areas of fighting in central Iraq are struggling to operate at full capacity due...

YANGON, 26 June 2014 (IRIN) - Last month the Myanmar government published a religious conversion bill in the state-owned newspapers, requesting input from citizens....

ERBIL, 25 June 2014 (IRIN) - Since January, more than 1.2 million Iraqis have fled their homes due to fighting between Shia-led government forces...

KHAZAIR, 25 June 2014 (IRIN) - Heavily pregnant Sneen kneels at the entrance to her tent, trying to shade herself from the searing sun...

ERBIL, 25 June 2014 (IRIN) - As fighting grows between Islamist insurgents and government forces in Iraq, aid agencies are straining to support the...

GENEVA (30 June 2014) – A group of UN human rights experts* expressed outrage after a Criminal Court in Minya, Egypt, confirmed death sentences...

KAMPALA, 25 June 2014 (IRIN) - Inadequate funding coupled with harsh laws targeting same sex unions could erode the gains so far made in...

DORO REFUGEE CAMP, UPPER NILE STATE, 25 June 2014 (IRIN) - South Sudan’s brutal conflict has throttled the supply of food to Sudanese refugees...

SAINT LOUIS, 24 June 2014 (IRIN) - Senegalese smallholder Doudou Sow is furious. Over the last 10 years, he says, farmers have been squeezed...

BANGKOK, 24 June 2014 (IRIN) - The system for registering, protecting, and finding durable solutions for asylum seekers in Indonesia risks becoming overburdened -...

ALUTHGAMA, 23 June 2014 (IRIN) - Sri Lanka’s government should take action to prosecute acts of communal violence and promote peace, say observers, following...

NAIROBI, 23 June 2014 (IRIN) - The northeast African regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has been working to get the opposing sides in...

  Ginebra / Jartum, 27 de junio 2014.- La actual crisis de desplazados internos y de refugiados en Sudán se manifiesta claramente como una crisis...

Amnistía Internacional lanza una ciberacción para exigir que Camerún reforme el Código Penal que viola los derechos de las personas LGBTI Madrid.- Con motivo del...

Amnesty International has gathered evidence pointing to a pattern of extrajudicial executions of detainees by government forces and Shi’a militias in the Iraqi cities...

BUJUMBURA / GENEVA (27 June 2014) - The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic today called on the authorities of Burundi...

1) Israel / occupied Palestinian territory  We are following with increasing concern the human rights situation in the context of the ongoing operations by...

 Reporteros Sin Fronteras publica este 26 de junio de 2014 un nuevo informe, ‘Periodistas palestinos, atrapados entre tres fuegos’.  Poco después de que el...

GENEVA (26 June 1024) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Mutuma Ruteere, on Thursday highlighted the issue of racism...

Over the past week there have been reports of notes for help or messages stitched into clothing sold by UK and Irish retailer Primark...

- Amnistía Internacional denuncia casos de tortura y malos tratos en 141 países en los últimos cinco años. - Activistas de la organización entregan...

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Geneva, 26 June 2014 Victims of torture continue to be ignored, silenced, abandoned or re-victimized. Impunity and...

GENEVA (26 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern Thursday about the large number of executions in Iran...

La ley aprobada esta tarde reconoce los derechos sociales y sanitarios de las personas trans sin que medie un diagnóstico médico.  El viernes previsiblemente...