Tag: Human Rights
Released for Syndication:
06/13/2025
The Cry That Fuelled the Flames Already Burning
On 3 June 2015, the murder of Chiara Páez, a pregnant teenager from Santa Fe, at the hands of her boyfriend, sparked one of the most powerful mobilisations in recent Argentine history. Under the slogan #NiUnaMenos (Not One...
Released for Syndication:
05/27/2025
On 10 May 2025, the Ecuadorian National Electoral Council proclaimed Daniel Noboa the winner of the presidential elections held on 13 April. The announcement was made amid allegations of fraud, electoral irregularities, and growing authoritarianism. This re-election represents the continuation and deepening of...
Released for Syndication:
05/19/2025
As of May 2025, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has reached an unprecedented level. Over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, the vast majority of them civilians, including thousands of children. Yet, Western powers – particularly the United States and its allies –...
Released for Syndication:
03/27/2025
The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 80th anniversary of the Yalta conference:
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Released for Syndication:
03/12/2025
On 27 January 2025, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians left their temporary shelters in southern Gaza and marched en masse to the north. They crossed various towns along the way, one long line of people alongside the Mediterranean Sea. It was clear that this was...
Released for Syndication:
03/11/2025
As chants of ‘No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!’ echoed through downtown Manhattan on 10 March 2025, I spoke to a person named Richard who had been marching just ahead of me. He declined to give his last name but was eager...
Released for Syndication:
02/15/2025
In another demonstration that the fight for LGBTQ rights in India goes far beyond marriage, a dispute in a Reliance Fresh supermarket in the posh South Kolkata neighbourhood of Jodhpur Park suddenly assumed a sinister character on 11 February. What started as an argument over...
Released for Syndication:
01/24/2025
In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention—announced, “We have decided on the coordinated and organized withdrawal of French forces” from the country.
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Released for Syndication:
12/20/2024
The lives of hundreds of thousands in the famine-struck Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) hang in the balance as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have intensified attacks on North Darfur state’s capital El Fasher.
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Released for Syndication:
12/19/2024
It has become background noise. We know it is happening, but we can almost forget that it continues at a barbaric rate. The United Nations deputy special coordinator for Palestine, Muhannad Hadi, released a statement on December 13, 2024, that simply makes no sense:...