Women from Afghanistan’s Purple Saturdays Movement continue to call for rights, justice, and freedom, despite mounting Taliban repression. Credit: Learning Together. kabul Friday, April 25, 2025 Inter Press Service KABUL, Apr 25 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her …
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Red State University Hit With Civil Rights Complaint For Race-Based Scholarship
U.S. Department of Education By Katelynn Richardson A civil rights group filed a complaint Friday against the University of Alabama (UA) for offering a race-based scholarship. The university’s website shows it offers its “Norton-Textra Endowed Scholarship for Minority Students in English” only to African-American students pursuing English degrees, which the …
Civil Rights Commission reimbursed unnecessary expenses for high-ranking official
Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. Recently, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released travel-expense records after the Bader Family Foundation sued it for violating the Freedom of Information Act. The records show that the Commission paid for unnecessary payments made by its then Staff …
Universal Declaration of Human Rights among new entries to UNESCO Memory of the World Register — Global Issues
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the latest inscriptions to its Memory of the World Register on Thursday. Submitted by 72 countries and four international organizations, they cover topics such as the scientific revolution, women’s contribution to history and major milestones of multilateralism such as the drafting …
Song about fictional character violates childrens’ rights, Colombia high court rules, in wacky decision
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s current president, and its first left-wing president. How can a song about an obviously fictional character violate a real person’s rights? But Columbia’s high court has just ruled that a pop song violated children’s rights, despite not referencing any actual child, and despite not containing an obscene …
Is El Salvador CECOT Prison Replacing Guantanamo Bay where Prisoners Have no Rights to Due Process of Law? Trump is Trying to Send U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Masonic brotherhood handshake? El Salvador President Nayib Bukele with President Donald Trump in the White House. Original image source. by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele was in the Oval Office with President Trump today, and said that he does not plan to return a Maryland man …
Matt Walsh Caves To Animal Rights Activist
Anyone who’s ever listened to Matt Walsh’s podcast or who has seen either of his two hit documentaries knows one thing: he’s a man who built a career on never backing down. Whether he’s being called racist by Media Matters or being attacked on X for his stance on taking …
Columbia University Human Rights Fellow Convicted For Having A Slave
By Thomas English A British jury convicted United Nations Judge Lydia Mugambe on Thursday of forcing a Ugandan woman into domestic servitude after luring her to the U.K. under false pretenses. Mugambe, who also serves as a high court judge in Uganda, brought the victim to Britain under the guise …
Womens Rights Face Unprecedented Pushbacks — Global Issues
Gender discrimination is still embedded in societies and institutions, beginning in governance, a new UN Women report finds. Credit: UN Women/James Ochweri. by Naureen Hossain (united nations) Thursday, March 06, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (IPS) – Girls and women worldwide are facing growing threats to their security …
UN rights chief — Global Issues
“Our world is going through a period of turbulence and unpredictability, reflected in growing conflict and divided societies,” Türk told the Human Rights Council. “We cannot allow the fundamental global consensus around international norms and institutions, built painstakingly over decades, to crumble before our eyes.” The weapons of war Presenting …
Iowa Becomes First State To Axe Transgender Protections From Civil Rights Code
By John Oyewale Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law Friday a bill expunging transgender protections from the state’s civil rights code, making the Hawkeye State the first in the nation to do so. The bill specifies gender will be considered in state law as synonymous with biological sex rather …
US Pullout Gives Upper Hand to Human Rights Abusers Worldwide — Global Issues
The UN General Assembly votes to suspend the rights of the membership of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council during an Emergency Special Session on Ukraine. April 2022. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday, February 14, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14 (IPS) …
China Has the Best Human Rights
In China, there’s no separation of church and state, the state is the church. The state is also the human rights non-governmental … source
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UN Human Rights Denounces Former Governments Violations Against Protestors — Global Issues
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called for national healing in a report on the Bangladesh 2024 protests. Credit: UN Photo by IPS Correspondent (united nations) Friday, February 14, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14 (IPS) – A new report from the UN Human …
Court dismisses part of atheist group’s lawsuit seeking to restrict college students’ religious rights
A federal court recently dismissed part of a lawsuit brought by an atheist group. That lawsuit sought to strike down a Trump-era regulation barring universities from restricting students groups’ religious freedoms on college campuses. On January 15, federal judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed the two primary claims in a lawsuit …
Coinbase defends customer asset rights in Prime Trust bankruptcy case
Coinbase has stepped into the Prime Trust bankruptcy case, filing an amicus brief to push back against a motion that could threaten customer asset protections. In a Feb. 5 court filing, the exchange has urged the court to uphold Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 8, a legal framework that ensures …
President Trump Will Withdraw The US From The UN Human Rights Council, Stop ALL UNRWA Funding
Despite US law that mandates that the US not fund any UN body that recognizes Palestinian statehood, the Biden Administration rejoined the UN Human Rights Council. The UN Human Rights Council includes the worst human rights violators in the world. Iran was appointed to chair the UN rights meeting in …
Rejecting court rulings, Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is part of the Constitution
Judges have concluded that the Equal Rights Amendment was never ratified and is not part of the Constitution. President Biden disagrees. “President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to …
Rights experts urge Senate to reject bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court — Global Issues
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Go here to read our analysis of the decision and the likely next steps, and here for our ICC explainer. The …
It’s not censorship to stop hateful online content, insists UN rights chief — Global Issues
“Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real world consequences. Regulating this content is not censorship,” Volker Türk wrote on X. In a longer LinkedIn post on the same theme, Mr. Türk maintained that labelling efforts to create safe online spaces as “censorship…ignore[s] the fact that unregulated space means …
