On February 4th, Amnesty International announced a new project to fight impunity in Mali. Amnesty International will partner on the project with Lawyers without Borders Canada (ASFC), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Malian Association for Human Rights (AMDH). The European Union (EU) is financing the project,
Hazardous child labour is a significant and ongoing issue for chocolate manufacturers. In September 2001, some of the biggest companies in the cocoa industry signed the Harkin-Engel Protocol and pledged to abolish the use of exploitative child labour. Almost twenty years later, the use of child labour is still rampant
Four years after his unjust “preventive detention,” Mahmoud Hussein, a 54-year-old journalist, was finally released from jail in Egypt on Thursday, February 4th, Thursday. The terms of his release are that he will have to report at the nearest police station two times every week. Back in 2016, when Hussein
CW: Sexual violence, rape, and torture. First-hand accounts from people that have spent time inside the network of Xinjiang internment camps are hard to come by. But recently Tursunay Ziawudun, who spent nine months inside one of these “re-education” centres, gave a revealing interview to the BBC. She reported that
Five people have been sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy, while a sixth has been sentenced to life in prison. All six men were members of armed group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist militant organization operating in Bangladesh. The group has been
