Week in Review [January 16, 2016 – January 22, 2016]
Here are this week’s top human rights headlines: Africa An Amnesty International report has exposed the “perilous conditions” children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo face when mining for...
View ArticleWHO Report Shows Global Childhood Obesity Rates Soaring
A recent report by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) found that childhood obesity rates have grown from 31 million kids in 1990 to 41 million kids in...
View ArticleDrought in Ethiopia Causes Food Drought
El Niño weather conditions have caused a food drought throughout Ethiopia. The United Nations is struggling to deliver food and adequate services to regions affected due to funding issues. To feed 10.2...
View ArticleAmnesty International Reports Nigerian War Criminal Reinstated to Armed Forces
Amnesty International has called attention to the Nigerian military’s reinstatement of a general who, according to Amnesty International, likely committed “war crimes including deaths of more than...
View ArticleMarijuana Reform Laws Likely to Pass in Tunisia
Human Rights Watch has released an extensive report chronicling Tunisia’s “draconian” drug laws and highlighted the potential for reform, including a draft law that would better respect the human...
View ArticleWheelchair-using Professor Remains Detained in India
GN Saibaba, an English professor at the University of Delhi who uses a wheelchair, has remains detained in a Maharashtra jail after being arrested in 2014 on charges of being a member of the outlawed...
View ArticleFood Security Threatened Due to Antibiotics
In a February 10, 2016 new release, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization stated that the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture is threatening food security and rural jobs. Bacteria are...
View ArticleCyclone Winston Leaves Fiji’s Children at Risk
After last week’s cyclone that ripped through Fiji, more than forty percent of children are at risk without safe drinking water, shelter, or electricity, according to UNICEF. Approximately 120,000...
View ArticleTwice as Many Girls as Boys Will Not Go To School
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), about sixteen million girls from the ages of six to eleven will not have the chance to attend school. UNESCO...
View ArticleZimbabwe Faces Worst Malnutrition Rates in Years
According to the UN Children’s Fund, nearly 33,000 children are facing malnutrition in Zimbabwe. This statistic is the worst that the country has seen in about fifteen years. A decrease in the amount...
View ArticleQatari Poet Freed
On March 15, Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami was freed from prison following a stay that lasted nearly five years. He was imprisoned following an event during which he read a poem aloud to a crowd;...
View ArticleWeek in Review [March 12, 2016 – March 18, 2016]
Here are this week’s top human rights headlines: Africa South Sudan was recently described as “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world” by the UN High Commissioner for Human...
View ArticleWeek in Review [March 19, 2016 – March 25, 2016]
Here are this week’s top human rights headlines: Africa The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba in one of the first cases before the ICC...
View ArticleFood Insecurity in South Sudan Causes Citizens to Leave
A food insecurity crisis is causing South Sudanese to flee into Sudan, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. About 38,000 people have fled so far, with some moving into East and South...
View ArticleThai Woman’s Facebook Post Leads to Arrest
On March 29, Theerawan Charoensuk, a fifty-nine year-old Thai woman, was arrested after posting a photo on Facebook featuring a red bowl with New Year’s wishes from former prime ministers of Thailand....
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