CAR refugees seek city life in Cameroon
BERTOUA, 19 June 2014 (IRIN) - Frustrated by their living conditions, refugees and other migrants are streaming into towns in eastern Cameroon in search...
Global efforts towards better corporate responsibility are “ignoring women”
GENEVA (20 June 2014) – In the emerging area of corporate responsibility, disparate harm to women from business and trade policies has been largely...
UN rights experts raise alarm on draft bill imposing restrictions to...
GENEVA (19 June 2014) – Three United Nations experts on freedom of religion, minority issues and human rights in Myanmar today call on the...
Joven gitano apaleado en París
Desde la Federación de Mujeres Gitanas Kamira condenamos con horror y preocupación el incidenete ocurrido en París esta semana, en el que un jóven...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani,...
Israel / occupied Palestinian territory
We continue to follow closely the situation of Palestinian hunger strikers protesting Israel's ongoing practice of administrative detention. The...
Indonesian garment industry receives human rights trial
Tomorrow marks the start of the fourth People’s Tribunal, a human rights trial held by garment workers’ unions and human rights groups to hear...
Gender Issues Featured at Regional Meeting
19 June 2014
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Gender and human rights concerns took center stage at a regional workshop held by partners in global health...
UNICEF envía suministros humanitarios para los niños desplazados por el conflicto...
Erbil, 17 de junio 2014.- Un avión de carga con suministros de emergencia para los niños afectados por el conflicto en Irak llegó a...
fePsh manifiesta su profundo rechazo e indignación ante las declaraciones del...
Para las entidades que formamos parte de fePsh, declaraciones como estas solo muestran que ciertas actitudes políticas están dirigidas a la criminalización de la...
New UN report on Ukraine details breakdown in law and order...
GENEVA (18 June 2014) – The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday issued a new report on Ukraine that...
Experta de la ONU felicita a El Salvador por reformas a...
GINEBRA (17 de junio de 2014) – La Relatora Especial sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, Victoria Tauli Corpuz, recibió con beneplácito la...
Don’t sideline quality education when preparing children to enjoy the responsibilities...
GENEVA (17 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, today called on the world's Governments not...
Pillay welcomes appointment of new UN human rights chief
GENEVA (17 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday warmly welcomed the UN General Assembly's appointment of Zeid...
Joven gitano en coma tras ser secuestrado y linchado por doce...
La agencia EFE nos ha trasladado la noticia. Un gitano de 16 años está en coma después de haber sido agredido en un barrio popular de...
Iran: Human rights caught between diplomatic progress and political deadlock
Op-ed written by Karim Lahidji, FIDH President, at the occasion of Rouhani’s first anniversary as the president of the country.The diplomats are delighted. One...
One step closer to a real right to international solidarity in...
GENEVA (17 June 2014) – Achieving the full realization of human rights for all rests on international solidarity, United Nations rights expert Virginia Dandan...
Solo el 13,9% de las mujeres en la Región Oriental de...
- En este territorio, el 73% de las marroquíes no sabe leer ni escribir, lo que dificulta su integración laboral.
- Fundación...
Pillay condemns series of «cold-blooded» executions in Iraq
GENEVA (16 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday condemned the reported cold-blooded executions of hundreds of Iraqi hors...
Judicial accountability is crucial, but cannot be used as a tool...
GENEVA (16 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, called on States to adopt...
Sri Lanka: Pillay alarmed by intercommunal violence, calls for end to...
GENEVA (16 June 2014) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed her deep alarm Monday at inter-communal violence taking place...
Fuera de la escuela y sin suerte
Nuevos informes muestran que muchos niños no pisarán jamás un aula
DAKAR/NAIROBI, 16 de junio de 2014 - A pesar del gran...
La APDHA denuncia la explotación laboral en prisión
Un problema casi desconocido que no ha sido objeto de análisis con anterioridad
12.000 presos trabajan en las prisiones de la Secretaria General de Instituciones Penitenciarias...
Urge ayudar a los civiles que huyen de la violencia
El desplazamiento de los iraquíes hacia el Kurdistán autónomo precisa de la coordinación urgente entre los trabajadores humanitarios, y del apoyo y la ayuda...
“En nuestro país se está negando un derecho fundamental a un...
- Los padres de Rubén llevan cuatro años luchando para conseguir que su hijo, con síndrome de Down, pueda estudiar en un colegio inclusivo....
UN expert calls for a stronger laws to fight violence against...
GENEVA (16 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo, warned that persisting and...
Film | Sierra Leone’s women behind bars
NAIROBI, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - Twelve years after Sierra Leone’s long civil war came to an end, its broken institutions and weak development...
Amid the violence, education suffers in South Sudan
NAIROBI, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - The latest conflict in South Sudan has undermined much of the progress that had been made in education...
Pakistan’s traumatized war children play soldiers and Taliban
PESHAWAR, 16 June 2014 (IRIN) - More than 60,000 people have fled North Waziristan Agency to safer parts of Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan as...
CAR’s unaccompanied children stuck in limbo
SARH, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - The violence in Central African Republic forced 97,000 civilians to flee across the border to Chad. Some 1,200...
Soldiers in schools – the impact of military occupations on education
BANGKOK, 12 June 2014 (IRIN) - Schools are targeted in conflicts around the world - they might represent ideas viewed as controversial, the destruction...
