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The red-and-white costume from Margaret Atwood’s novel has been donned by women from Ireland to Argentina
Women dressed as handmaids protest against US vice-president Mike Pence in Philadelphia, 23 July. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP
When US vice-president Mike Pence visited Philadelphia on 23 (...)
NGO’s annual report warns that aggressive political rhetoric is creating a ‘hostile climate for refugees and migrants’
Toxic political rhetoric with echoes of 1930s hate speech is stirring up violence worldwide – including in the UK and US, Amnesty International has warned.
Kerry Moscoguiri, (...)
Seven rather austere-looking middle aged men looked down on us as we discussed the way the Internet was raising new issues for the left. They were the former presidents of the transport union in Luxembourg. These men were brought up in the world of electricity, railways, giant factories and (...)
The refusal of entry into their airspace by European states for the Bolivian presidential jet on the basis of suspicions that Edward Snowden was on board was an astonishing manoeuvre that flies in the face of the EU’s commitment to democracy, human rights and international law.
The potential (...)
Draft statement for consideration from the Reclaim the Net conference organised by the Dei Lenk (Left Party) of Luxembourg with the participation of members or supporters of Parti de Gauche (France), Die Linke (Germany) and Left Unity (Britain). 28th/29th June 2013 at a Conference supported by (...)
Making banks and non-profits liable for the acts and social networks of their customers and beneficiaries while holding charities and CSOs responsible for the ‘extremist’ views and actions of their associates stifles freedom of association and expression and promotes self-censorship.
CFT vs. (...)
21 February 2012
Dear Mr. /Mrs. President,
La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, together with FIAN International, would like to commend the Advisory Committee for its final study on the advancement of the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
Secure (...)
Dear Kenneth Roth,
In your Introduction to Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2012, “Time to Abandon the Autocrats and Embrace Rights,” you urge support for the newly elected governments that have brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Tunisia and Egypt. In your desire to “constructively (...)
The Army intelligence analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, now in a military detention center charged with having leaked classified documents related to the Iraq War, once explained why he was contemplating his deed. (He is additionally suspected of having leaked the 390,000 documents made public (...)
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims - June 26, 2010.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-129-2010 une 25, 2010
ASIA: Asian governments need to change policing based on the use of torture
As the International (...)
At the centre of the trials in Copenhagen against the spokes persons of Climate Justice Action this week is a two meter long bolt cutter. The prosecutor is very upset. Here we have the ultimate proof of the planned violence against the police. By wire tapping telephones and emails and taking (...)
On Feb. 7, 2010, Gita Sahgal, head of the gender research unit at the London secretariat of Amnesty International, was suspended from her job three hours after she gave an interview to the Sunday Times airing her concerns about AI’s relationship with Moazzam Begg, a British jihadi who was (...)
Dear all,
La Via Campesina sent out this open letter to the Danish authorities to ask for the immediate release of the activists arrested during the COP15 mobilisations. We invite everyone to send this letter (or any other protest letter) to the Danish authorities before the trial starting on (...)
(Geneva, 8 March 2010) During the current session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Advisory Committee will present a study on discrimination in the context of the right to food. This study concludes that peasant families are among the main victims of right to food violations and (...)
Annual commemorations of Human Rights Day, December 10, are often somewhat ritualized events to mark the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, the public meeting held December 10 in my home city, Ottawa, was somewhat exceptional in that it was sponsored by the Justice (...)
Thirty-one year old Thodoris Iliopoulos is the last prisoner of the December 2008 Greek revolt. He has been in pre-trial detention for more than eight months after his arrest on December 18th in downtown Athens.
Thodoris has been charged with felonies on the sole basis of witness accounts of (...)
In a resolution (A/HRC/10/L.34) on discrimination based on religion or belief and its impact on the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, adopted by a vote of 22 in favour, one against, and 24 abstentions as orally amended, the Council emphasizes that discrimination based on (...)
Six young people were arrested during the demonstration in solidarity with Greek students on Friday December 12th in Paris. The police used the pretext that the demonstration had not been authorised to pick out certain demonstrators at random and arrest them. After 48 hours in custody, where (...)
Much more documentation on Edvige can be found on ESSF in the corresponding French section. See the key word: Fichiers Remember the movie ’Das Leben der Anderen’ (The Lives of Others), where a Stasi agent was monitoring a playwriter’s life? This doesn’t translate anymore in French into ’La vie des (...)
On June 11, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s proposals to extend the time that police are allowed to detain “terrorist suspects” without charge narrowly scraped through a vote in the House of Commons. The MP vote was 315 to 306 to back Brown’s proposal to extend the limit on detention without (...)
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