Rights watch
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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world.
China deal damages EU’s human rights credibility, MEPs to say | European Union | The Guardian
European Commission will come under fire over agreement that is already causing tensions with US.
Kazakh Authorities Target Rights Groups in Coordinated Attack | Human Rights Watch
The ongoing crackdown on local human rights groups casts serious doubt that Kazakhstan’s leadership is genuinely interested in reforms or improving its rights record.
Day of Endangered Lawyer focuses on Azerbaijan
Protests and seminars in solidarity.
Stay-home orders in the Philippines didn’t work for lower-class people who rely on short term jobs for family income.
Gráinne Moss had been under pressure after reports into systemic bias at Oranga Tamariki.
Opinion: USA uses human rights rhetoric to promote its interests in other countries
“Human rights and the humanitarian agenda are used by a number of countries, including the United States, to promote their interests in other countries,” said political scientist Denis Melyantsov.
Will France face UN human rights body over anti-Muslim discrimination?
Human rights organisations from around the world call upon the United Nations to investigate France’s treatment of its Muslim citizens.
The Polish case against the Virgin Mary – POLITICO
Three activists face two years in prison for portraying Mary with a rainbow halo.
The organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) denounced the alarming living and working conditions of foreign farm workers on the Gioia Tauro plain in Calabria, southern Italy.
By all indications Washington is behind the move intended to press President Gotabhaya Rajapakse’s government to break from Beijing’s “influence.”
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