Human rights: child pregnancies in Paraguay; Palmyra; children in Nepal
MEPs state their concern at the high number of child pregnancies in Paraguay, calling for "access to safe and legal abortion" when the health and life of women or girls are in danger, "where there is severe foetal impairment and in cases of rape and...
UNHCR in campaign to cut global road death toll from one every 30 seconds
UN High Commissioner António Guterres, accompanied by Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy on Road Safety, kicks off campaign with...
Hungary: MEPs condemn Orbán’s death penalty statements and migration survey
The European Parliament asks the European Commission to assess the situation in Hungary and to establish an EU mechanism to monitor democracy, the rule of law and human rights annually across the EU, in a resolution voted on Wednesday. Reinstating the...
Ghana: Child Labor Taints Gold Supply Chain
International gold refiners who use gold from Ghana may be benefitting from hazardous child labor in unlicensed mines, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on the eve of World Day Against Child Labor, June 12, 2015. The refiners should take...
Increased militia violence could push Burundi ‘over the edge,’ warns UN rights chief
51-year-old Gervais with his wife, four children and two nephews, who paddled across Lake Cahoha, in...
Brazil: Reject Move to Try Children as Adults
The Brazilian Congress should vote down a proposed Constitutional amendment that would allow 16 and 17-year-olds to be tried and punished as adults, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to congressional leaders on June 9. The amendment would violate...
Bangladesh: Girls Damaged by Child Marriage
Belkis, 15 years old, holds her one-year-...
New UN report details litany of human rights violations, ‘rule by fear’ in Eritrea
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea Sheila B. Keetharuth.
DR Congo: Exhume Mass Grave
Mass gravesite on the edge of the Fula-Fula cemetery in Maluku, on the outskirts of Kinshasa, capital of...
Egypt: Year of Abuses Under al-Sisi
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has presided over the flagrant abuse of human rights since taking office a year ago pledging to restore stability. Violence by armed groups and the government has escalated.
