Human Rights

Joint PSI-EI statement on LGBT rigths violations

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Sexual abuse, early marriage, forced recruitment among concerns highlighted by UN child rights body

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Children in Dammaj village, northern Yemen, are cut off from food and healthcare.

First UN report on children in Syria’s civil war paints picture of ‘unspeakable’ horrors

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Syrian children shelter in the doorway of a house, amid gunfire and shelling, in a city affected by the...

Parliament calls for EU roadmap to protect fundamental rights of LGBTI people

The EU should draw up a roadmap to protect the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, says a resolution adopted by Parliament on Tuesday. In the 2013 EU LGBT survey, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency...

UN action in South Sudan has saved thousands of lives, says peacekeeping chief

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Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous (second right) on a visit to the...

UN seeks $2 billion in international aid for Africa’s Sahel region

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Mother and child in hospital in Cameroon’s Maroua town. Malnutrition in the country affected some 58,000 children...

Central African Republic: UN calls on donors to close massive funding gap

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Food aid arriving at an IDP camp in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Tunisia: Let Constitution Herald Human Rights Era

The adoption of Tunisia’s new constitution should set in motion a wide-ranging overhaul of laws and public institutions, Al Bawsala, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch said. The constitution, which guarantees many fundamental rights and...

In EU law, the interpretation to be given to the concept of ‘internal armed conflict’ must be independent of the definition used in international humanitarian law

An EU Directive1 protects not only persons who can qualify for recognition as refugees, but also persons who do not qualify for this status but in respect of whom substantial grounds have been shown for believing that, if returned to their country of...

City of New York and Center for Constitutional Rights Announce Agreement in Landmark Stop and Frisk Case

After 14 years of litigation and decades of community action, plaintiffs’ counsel and Mayor Bill de Blasio reached an agreement which will result in the withdrawal of the City’s appeal of the landmark stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. City of New York,...