Dramatic deterioration in respect for women’s rights
7/3/2022: Amnesty International has warned that catastrophic attacks on human rights and gender equality over the past twelve months have lowered protection for and upped threats against women and girls across the globe. On International Women's Day the organization called for bold action to reverse erosions of human rights for women and girls.
Source: Amnesty International
The human rights situation in Russia
4/3/2022: The UN Human Rights Council has been alerted by campaign organisations to the intensified crackdown on human rights in Russia. A fully-fledged witch hunt against independent groups human rights defenders media outlets and political opposition is decimating civil society.
Source: Human Rights Watch
US State of the Union: democracy and human rights
28/2/2022: By comparison with the dismal performance of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden refreshingly promised a foreign policy guided by human rights. But despite some positive steps Biden's approach has been disappointingly conventional.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Russian censorship reaches new heights
28/2/2022: Russian authorities have threatened to fine or block 10 Russian independent media outlets if they do not delete publications about the war in Ukraine.
Source: Human Rights Watch
International Court to rule on case for justice for Rohingya
28/2/2022: Hearings at the International Court of Justice on Myanmar's objections to the case on alleged genocide against Rohingya Muslims have came to a close. The Court could take a year before it decides on whether the case can proceed.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Democratic resilience under pressure
23/2/2022: For the first time since 2004 the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index counts more autocratically governed states than democracies. Civil society engagement offers a ray of hope directed in many places against rising levels of inequality and efforts to dilute democratic standards.
Source: Transformation Index
Victory for media freedom as Tanzania lifts newspaper ban
11/2/2022: The lifting of the ban on four newspapers that have been barred from publishing since 2016 and 2017 for exposing alleged corruption and human rights violations is a positive step. Tanzanian authorities can do more to guarantee media freedom.
Source: Amnesty International
Why press freedom and end to FGM are related in Somalia
7/2/2022: Press freedom and female genital mutilation (FGM) may be unrelated issues around the world but in Somalia stakeholders think achievement of one will depend on the other. Nine in every ten women in Somalia aged 15-49 have undergone FGM according to the UN Population Fund.
Source: The East African
Myanmar: World must act now to prevent further atrocity
27/1/2022: Ahead of the anniversary of the 1 February 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Amnesty International is calling on the international community to prevent further access to weaponry used to commit widespread human rights abuses.
Source: Amnesty International
Beijing Olympics begin amid atrocity crimes
27/1/2022: 243 nongovernmental organizations from around the world have urged governments to join a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics. The games will open amid atrocity crimes and other grave human rights violations by the Chinese government.
Source: Human Rights Watch