Tag: Human rights

15 April 2024

Ugandan communities have once again spoken out about the devastating ...

Bombed Gaza and Germany chancellor Israel

People LIVING IN Gaza amid Israel’s genocide are taking GERMANY to COURT over arms exports

12 April 2024

Five Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have filed a ...

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) court room, with empty chairs.

Three ECHR cases will put governments in the hot-seat over their failures on the climate crisis

8 April 2024

Governments will be feeling the heat on Tuesday 9 April ...

Entrance to St Mark's Hospital in London ME/CFS

NHS ramps up medical abuse of two people with ME/CFS – as new Europe-wide survey shows it’s systemic

12 April 2024

The NHS is continuing to unconscionably abuse two women living ...

UNCRPD forum room at Geneva there are circles of long tables with people sitting at screens at the top of the room is a long table against a marble stone backdrop

What was it like being at the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled People? F*cking frustrating.

by Rachel Charlton-Dailey

It’s been two weeks since the UK government was hauled ...

Intersex people pride flag UN resolution

UN finally passes a resolution recognising one of society’s most marginalised groups

The UN Human Rights Council passed its first ever resolution ...

Heart-shaped placard reads: "Women Life Freedom". Iran's executions Iran

Iran’s executions turned prisons into mass “killing fields” through its brutal “war on drugs” and patriarchal suppression of minorities

Iran's murderous "war on drugs" and its violent repression of ...

Listing for the DWP's new "covert surveillance officer" roles benefits

The DWP is hiring surveillance snoops for its fascist “benefit fraud” plans

If you ever wanted a job bootlicking for Tory big ...

Entrance sign to Perenco's onshore oilfield which reads "Welcome to Wytch Farm", while a sign reading: "End UK support for fossil fuels" with a burning earth image is draped over the rest.

Activists show the BBC why it shouldn’t buy Perenco’s spin – a year on from major UK oil spill

24 March 2024

Nearly a year on from Perenco spilling 200 barrels of ...

Big oil boasted feminism and climate solutions at a major fossil fuel conference – and it was all greenwashing bullshit

22 March 2024

Houston, we have a problem - and it’s the fossil ...

Orangutan walking through a forest with Unilever and Nestle logos deforestation

Company linked to Unilever & Nestlé is using tax havens to hide deforestation HALF the size of Singapore

22 March 2024

Since 2021, a single company has cut down biodiverse rainforest ...

Azerbaijan state fossil fuel company SOCAR employee looks out across an industrial oil and gas site.

Climate justice organisations call for host Azerbaijan to drop fossil fuel exec from COP29 committee

20 March 2024

Over 150 non-profit organisations have called out the influence of ...

Children queue for food in Gaza Gaza aid maritime corridor Israel

New maritime aid corridor to Gaza is a “PR stunt” and smokescreen for Western imperial oil & gas interests

13 March 2024

As Gazans mark a devastating start to Ramadan on the ...

FIFA is under mounting pressure over its unwillingness to suspend genocidal Israel

12 March 2024

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is facing pressure ...

Rishi Sunak looking angry standing at a podium outside 10 Downing street UNCRPD

The Tory government is being hauled to the UN over human rights violations here in the UK

by Steve Topple

7 March 2024

The UN is once again hauling the Conservative-led UK government ...

Israel just sent a massive ‘screw you’ to the rest of the world – not that the world will do anything