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US sanctions Nicaragua’s attorney general over human rights concerns | News

March 22, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , ,

Washington says Morales Urbina ‘exploited her office to facilitate a coordinated campaign to suppress dissent’. The United States has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua’s attorney general for what it says is her role in the government’s “unjust persecution of political prisoners and civil society”. Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, who has been the attorney general since 2019, [...]read moreUS sanctions Nicaragua’s attorney general over human rights concerns | News

The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere | Women’s Rights

March 22, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , ,

In the United States, women’s reproductive rights, gained through half a century of feminist struggle, are rapidly being replaced with reproductive wrongs. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that gave women the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, in 28 states access to abortion has been restricted [...]read moreThe US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere | Women’s Rights

Thousands bid final farewell to Russia’s Alexey Navalny, risking arrest | Human Rights News

March 2, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , ,

Thousands gathered to bid a final farewell to Alexey Navalny, many chanting his name and saying they will not forgive Russian authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest. Crowds of mourners turned up near a church in southern Moscow on Friday, waiting hours to pay their respects to Navalny under [...]read moreThousands bid final farewell to Russia’s Alexey Navalny, risking arrest | Human Rights News

Vietnam orders control of workers, unions despite UN pledges, watchdog says | Labour Rights News

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , , ,

Directive 24 also urges officials to push back against foreign influence, The 88 Project says. Taipei, Taiwan – Vietnam’s Communist Party leaders have issued a sweeping directive aimed at clamping down on civil society, including trade unions and labour activism, even as it pledges to uphold human rights at the United Nations, according to a [...]read moreVietnam orders control of workers, unions despite UN pledges, watchdog says | Labour Rights News

‘A legend for our people’: Inside an Indigenous activist’s death in Brazil | Indigenous Rights News

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , , ,

Uruçuca, Brazil – Mukunã Pataxó remembers his aunt began to sing moments before the gunfire rang out. Maria de Fátima Muniz, 52, was a spiritual leader among the Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe, an Indigenous group in northeastern Brazil. A short, serious woman with dark, shoulder-length hair, she was known to lead her people in prayer and song, [...]read more‘A legend for our people’: Inside an Indigenous activist’s death in Brazil | Indigenous Rights News

Funeral of Kremlin critic Navalny to be held in Moscow on Friday | Human Rights News

February 29, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , , , ,

Widow of the Russian opposition leader unsure whether his funeral will pass off peacefully after Russia blocked memorial service plans. The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will be held in Moscow on Friday, his family and spokesperson have said. Navalny’s widow Yulia [...]read moreFuneral of Kremlin critic Navalny to be held in Moscow on Friday | Human Rights News

Northern Ireland judge rules ‘Troubles’ violence amnesty breaches rights | Human Rights News

February 29, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , ,

A new law that gives immunity from prosecution for most offences committed during Northern Ireland’s decades of sectarian violence is not compliant with human rights, a judge in Belfast has ruled. The British government’s Legacy and Reconciliation Bill, passed in September, stops most prosecutions for alleged killings by armed groups and British soldiers during “the [...]read moreNorthern Ireland judge rules ‘Troubles’ violence amnesty breaches rights | Human Rights News

Why were Muslim prisoners in the US pepper-sprayed while praying? | Human Rights

February 28, 2024 No Comments News , , , , ,

On February 28, 2021, just after 9pm, nine Muslim men removed their shoes, lined up in single file, and knelt quietly for Isha, their faith’s mandatory night prayer, inside a Missouri state prison in the small city of Bonne Terre. Their action was neither unusual nor provocative. The men had been praying together in the [...]read moreWhy were Muslim prisoners in the US pepper-sprayed while praying? | Human Rights

Byju’s says $200 million rights issue that cuts valuation by 99% fully subscribed

February 21, 2024 No Comments Technology , , , ,

Byju’s says its recently launched $200 million rights issue has been fully-subscribed, but the startup’s founder urged some of its major investors to participate amid a rift between the edtech group and some of its largest shareholders. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, valued at $22 billion in its last financing round in early 2022, announced last month [...]read moreByju’s says $200 million rights issue that cuts valuation by 99% fully subscribed

European digital rights group say the future of online privacy is on a knife edge

February 16, 2024 No Comments Technology , , , , , ,

A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wikimedia Europe, have written to the European Union’s regulatory body for data protection urging it to reject a tactic that’s been controversially seized upon by Meta in its latest bid to circumvent the bloc’s privacy laws. If [...]read moreEuropean digital rights group say the future of online privacy is on a knife edge