Sunday, March 31, 2024
Working abroad can be a way for Indonesians to earn much more than they could at home, and provide for their families. However, for some the journey can turn into a nightmare, with long hours, wages withheld, and abuse. The UN is working closely with the government to help bring trafficked workers home.
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By Amnesty International
Iranti and Amnesty International join the rest of the world in celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). It’s a day for celebrating trans and gender-diverse people while raising awareness and drawing attention to the challenges, discrimination and injustices trans and gender diverse people continue to face. Under the theme Trans Love Letters, this […] The post Iranti and Amnesty International mark International Transgender Day of Visibility appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Christianne Zakour
In April 2020, a video of a dog being hanged went viral, to the horror of social media users. Sadly, cruel acts like these are not one-offs.
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By Mong Palatino
"I may die without knowing the truth, but I hope that the next generation will continue to question the state, that they will continue to remember those who were disappeared."
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By Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe
Transgender people in North Macedonia refuse to be silenced and continue to struggle for full integration in society, marking the International Transgender Day of Visibility with a march in Skopje.
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By Anastasia Pestova
“How to flee from Ukraine to Moldova” is googled by women, children, and the elderly, but also men of military age who can't or don't want to fight
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By Jocelyn Jones, Research Associate in Justice Health and Social Issues, Curtin University
Hannah McGlade, Associate professor, Curtin University
Sasha Moodie, Research Officer, Curtin University
Just over half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care live with a kinship carer. Targets aim to increase this proportion. But what is kinship care?
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By Robert Diab, Professor, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University
Four Ontario school boards have filed a lawsuit against social media platforms to force them to change practices that harm schoolchildren.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Federal Security Service officials bring Dalderjon Mirzoev, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall's massacre, to the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on March 24, 2024. © 2024 Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images (Berlin, March 29, 2024) – Russian authorities tortured, recorded, and shared recordings of the torture, of at least two men held as suspects for the monstrous March 22, 2024 attack on a concert hall, Human Rights Watch said today. Photographs and videos of the arrests and torture of suspects, presumably taken by law enforcement officials, started surfacing on…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A sign reads "check door lock" on a gate inside Tochigi prison, Japan's largest women's prison, January 31, 2019. © 2019 Yo Nagaya During a Diet session last week, Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced it had broadened a directive initially sent to all penal institutions in 2014 that effectively bans the use of restraints on imprisoned pregnant women inside delivery rooms. The reform is a much-needed step in protecting the rights of women in Japan’s prisons. The new directive, issued on March 18, now includes an effective ban on handcuffing pregnant women during “transportation…
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