HumanRights
Collage by Giovana Fleck using disability rights poster at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, used with permission, and a photo of Marijeta Mojasevic, courtesy Mojasevic. This article, written by Clarisse Sih and Bibbi Abruzzini, was part of the#MarchWithUs campaign — one full month of stories from gender justice activists worldwide. Waking up scared for life because of a neurological problem is a situation nobody ever wishes to find themselves in. Marijeta Mojasevic certainly never thought she could suffer a stroke, and even if, definitely not at 17 years old. Mojasevic was ...
Global Voices
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez introducing the Law Against Fascism in the National Assembly of Venezuela on April 2, 2024. Photo by The National Assembly of Venezuela. Open License. Last Tuesday, April 2, from the podium of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez presented, on behalf of Nicolás Maduro, a proposed Law against Fascism that hides in its 30 articles the total legalization of censorship, repression, and the curtailment of the right to protest. The law is considered a legal strategy to minimize the last freedoms of citizens in the face of the presidential el...
Global Voices
This text, written by Lucas Pedretti and edited by Thiago Domenici, was originally published on Agência Pública's website on March 27, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. In the early days of March 1985, shortly before José Sarney assumed the presidency, the National Information Service (SNI) produced a secret study, which compared the performance of intelligence agencies in democracies and in totalitarian regimes, with the title “Information in democratic regimes.” In its assessment, employing “certain methods” in democracies could represe...
Global Voices
Survivors of cyber slavery in South Asia have spoken out about the horrific conditions they endured while allegedly being forced to operate online scams from behind barbed wire fences in prison-like buildings. Trafficked by Chinese gangs, Pakistans are forced to scam at least five Americans daily, facing beatings and starvation if they failed - a horrific reality that's recently been revealed by a recent U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report. The report showed a concerning trend: One in four Americans has lost money to scams, with a median individual loss of $500. Lured by social media ad...
IBTimes
Gender-based violence has crept up in the digital era in the form of online violence against women and girls, especially affecting women with political ambitions. Part of this violence entails gendered disinformation. This form of disinformation uses gender stereotypes to attack women and influence debates by promoting certain political, social or economic goals. It seeks to intimidate, discredit, humiliate and embarrass women, and push public debates. According to Byte Bullies, a report by feminist think tank Pollicy, two out of five women candidates experienced sexual harassment on their X (...
Global Voices
Ukraine's human rights activist Mariia Sulialina has won the 2024 Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award, the organization announced on April 25. Sulialina, who heads the Ukrainian human rights organization Almenda, has been documenting Russia's war crimes against children. The Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award is presented for outstanding work in the defense of civil and political rights. It is awarded yearly by Civil Rights Defenders, a Stockholm-based organization that was founded as the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in 1982. "Ukrainian human rights defender Mariia Suli...
Kyiv Independent
Ukraine's human rights activist Mariia Sulialina has won the 2024 Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award, the organization announced on April 25. Sulialina, who heads the Ukrainian human rights organization Almenda, has been documenting Russia's war crimes against children. The Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award is presented for outstanding work in the defense of civil and political rights. It is awarded yearly by Civil Rights Defenders, a Stockholm-based organization that was founded as the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in 1982. "Ukrainian human rights defender Mariia Suli...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Ukraine's human rights activist Mariia Sulialina has won the 2024 Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award, the organization announced on April 25. Sulialina, who heads the Ukrainian human rights organization Almenda, has been documenting Russia's war crimes against children. The Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award is presented for outstanding work in the defense of civil and political rights. It is awarded yearly by Civil Rights Defenders, a Stockholm-based organization that was founded as the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in 1982. "Ukrainian human rights defender Mariia Suli...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
A playground in the West Bank. Picture taken by Justin McIntosh, August 2004. Wikimedia Commons. (CC-BY-2.0). Since Israel's latest aggression on Gaza began in October — described as “a mass assassination factory” — the literal and actual dehumanization of Palestinians has intensified. UNICEF has labeled Gaza “a graveyard for children” and “a living hell,” as a result of Israel's severe and unrelenting attacks. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese referred to the ‘deliberate unchilding from birth’ of Palestinians under Israel’s “forever occupation” which has caused “never-ending harm” to t...
Global Voices
The world is witnessing a near-breakdown of international law, Amnesty International has warned in its annual report. Pointing to flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, a proliferation of armed conflict, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar, the human rights organisation said the most powerful governments must shoulder much of the blame. The report's authors write that the US, Russia and China together have led a global disregard for international rules and values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with civilians in co...
Euronews (English)
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