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A human rights violation is any action or inaction that infringes upon the fundamental rights and freedoms of an individual. Human rights are basic rights and protections that are afforded to all people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. They include the right to life, liberty, and security; freedom from torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; the right to a fair trial; and the right to education, among others. Human rights violations can take many forms and can be perpetrated by governments, individuals, or groups. Examples of human rights violations include torture, genocide, forced displacement, discrimination, and slavery. It is important to address and prevent human rights violations in order to ensure that all people are able to live with dignity and respect.
Despite knowing the risks, we continue to turn away from the children of Ukraine While the full-scale war in Ukraine continues after a year, thousands of civilians, including that of children, are added to the list of those that have since lost their lives. But Ukrainian children also face another silent and underreported battle. They…
This piece was jointly submitted with Women’s Peace Network to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons in response to their call for inputs. For decades, as an ethnic minority group, the Rohingya people have faced discrimination, oppression, and persecution in Myanmar. Stripped from their access to property, citizenship, and other basic rights,…
Neuroscience has confirmed what most of us already know — humans are terrible at understanding big numbers. This limitation likely contributed to challenges in how the American public perceived and grappled with COVID. Two neuroscientists explained it this way, “Numbers are a useful, clear and efficient way to summarize [harms], but … the brain simply…
Watch our event with a brilliant panel of activists discussing forced prison labor. Louisiana, the U.S. state dubbed the “world’s prison capital”, has a deep-rooted forced prison labor problem. In addition to this human rights violation, it is the only jurisdiction in the U.S. that is known to systematically keep people incarcerated past their release…
Forced labour in Pakistan has been politicised, hidden and long-present. While national policies had always been ratified, inaction on the issue has been common as the solution is complex and multi-tiered. This solution is also structural and requires socio-cultural action. On Wednesday, speaking at a meeting on the Inter-Ministerial and Inter-Provincial Steering Committee of National…
A sex worker gestures flirtatiously to passing men as she stands outside a dilapidated multi-storey building on Nugget Street in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow area. “It’s not like a hotel, [there are] no bookings. They just come, we do business and they leave,” she said while waiting to do “business”. It has been a slow day, she…
There are growing calls for South Sudan authorities to come on board and tackle human trafficking. It’s a big concern for the East African nation, recently Kenyan President William Ruto warned about unfolding human rights abuses in Juba. Meanwhile, the United Nations (UN) further called on the international community to support the peace process as…
It is not news that Qatar, a country with serious human rights violations, was chosen to host this year’s World Cup. Migrant workers have been the most affected by the nation’s kafala system, with abuses, exploitation, injuries, and death, while the most vulnerable – including women and LGBTQ+ people – are subjected to verbal, physical,…
Beijing [China], December 29 (ANI): The inclusion of modern medicine tools like DNA profiling and iris scanning at mass levels in China has given rise to fears of China using these tools to further promote the country’s inhuman international business of forcibly harvested human organs, according to a report in Tibet Press. The report says…
Muhammad Taher knew he was risking his life when he decided to leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh and board a decrepit-looking boat to Indonesia, but the father-of-four was desperate to work. He almost didn’t make it. A week after the boat carrying more than 180 people set off, its engine broke down. Those…
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