Nasrin Sotoudeh has always been a reputable Iranian Human Rights lawyer repeatedly attracting great international mobilization and support on several occasions when she faced severe repression from Iranian authorities. Throughout the decade, she endured two unfair trials after protesting against Iran’s degrading veiling laws; she put her life at risk
On the 9th of January, Irene Sewankambo, the Uganda Communications Commission’s Executive Director ordered the closure of social media platforms and messaging applications such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Service providers like Airtel and MTN Uganda also informed subscribers about a general suspension. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is entering his sixth
Loujain Al-Hathloul is a women’s rights activist, political prisoner and social media figure born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia who was repeatedly arrested for defying gender inequalities in Saudi Arabia. In 2018, she was once again arrested along with a group of men and women involved in campaigning for women’s rights
On the 18th of December, Iranian authorities planned to carry out the execution of 30-year-old Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee for crimes he was forced to confess when he was only 16 years old. Several sources say that these confessions have been extracted under torture. In spite of he and his lawyer
On December 15th, Hungary approved a new law under the supervision of the Prime Minister Viktor Orban aiming to strip same-sex couples the right to adoption. In addition, two constitutional amendments have almost been introduced only to further restrictions to their rights. This discriminatory bill, according to the country’s politicians
November 17th marks the sticking point of six years of negotiations for both counterpart prime minsters, Scott Morrison and Yoshihide Suga, regarding the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA), upon which they seek to facilitate Japanese and Australian inter-operability and cooperation, via allowing mutual defence forces to train in each other’s territory.
The United Nations has warned last Friday of war crimes that had been perpetrated on the night of November 9 in Mai-Kadra, Tigray, the northernmost region of Ethiopia. This barbarity involves the killing with sharp weapons such as knives and machetes of approximately 500 labourers not subject to the conflict,
Temperatures along the arid U.S.-Mexico border remain as hot as its perception in the debates. Last August was the driest in 90 years, leaving Mexico unable to pay its water obligations to the superpower next door. Mexico’s deadline to pay off these obligations was October 24th. In early October, drought-hit
