Women’s rights under threat after Brexit, warns EHCR report
Summary According to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), when the UK leaves the EU, women in UK risk losing hard-won equality, especially employment rights and …
Human Rights
The newest human rights outrage from Trump
Summary The Trump administration plans to detain migrant families together in custody rather than release them. The Flores settlement agreement allowed the government to …
Legal aid cuts have made human rights ‘unaffordable’, warn MPs
Summary A cross-party group of MPs has warned that cuts to legal aid have made the enforcement of human rights “simply unaffordable” for many people …
Egypt: Campaign to Crush Artistic Freedom
Summary Since February 2018, the Egyptian authorities have arrested and prosecuted many artists for their work by reason of “national security”, including an Egyptian poet, a …
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Myanmar Military Over Rohingya Atrocities
Summary On Friday, August 17, 2018 the United States Department of Treasury announced it is imposing economic sanctions on certain members of Myanmar’s (Burma) military …
Human Rights Abuses in Chechnya: 15 OSCE Countries Invoke Vienna Mechanism
Summary Members of the Organization for the Security and Cooperation of Europe (OSCE) have come together to invoke the Vienna Mechanism, which deals with Human …
The Rohingya refugee crisis speaks to the worst acts of humanity
Summary In the past year, refugee camps in Bangladesh have accepted more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar to avoid violence, more than …
India’s Top Court Decriminalizes Gay Sex in Landmark Ruling
Summary India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation. Section 377, an …
Pittsburgh Killing Aftermath Bares Jewish Rifts in Israel and America
Summary Last Saturday when a gunman opened fire on Jewish worshippers in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, bullet wounds were not the …
Child on death row in South Sudan as state executions escalate – rights group
Summary State-sanctioned executions are on the rise in South Sudan and people who were children at the time of the crime are among those who …