Ecuador: Criminalizing Abortion Affects Rights, Health (Washington, D.C.) – Ecuador’s laws criminalizing abortion violate the rights and risk the lives and health of women and girls, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
13 Graphs Perfectly Demonstrate What Depression Feels Like Through drawings or illustrations, you can understand more than thousands of words put together could ever convey.
Protective Spells for Safe Travels Open roads, clear skies, and good friends– what more could you ask for this summer?
10 Truths about People Who Are Easily Offended The growth of social media has developed spaces where opinions are flying.We now have the opinion of just about anyone at our fingertips, and they aren’t always good.
Medical Marijuana for Animals: A Call for Standards Among the ambiguous areas in the state medical marijuana laws from coast to coast is the status of cannabis and its derivatives as veterinary medications.
How Google and Wikipedia Brainwash You Internet giants cover-up for Big Pharma, suppress alternative medicine and bury inconvenient facts.
Russia: Court Convicts Rights Defender (Moscow) – A court in Sochi, Russia, has convicted a prominent human rights defender on criminal charges related to the country’s “foreign agents” law, Human Rights Watch said today.
Do We Need To Use ANGER To Change Our Lives Or Society? In the 13 years I have been doing journalism and exploring life and society from a philosophical point of view, one of the big questions that has come up is: do we need anger create change in the world? What does this mean specifically? Many people have felt that we
Saudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked (Beirut) – New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons, Human Rights Watch said today.
NHS Doctors and GP’s have betrayed the British People; they’re quite happy to do very little work whilst making tons of money Once upon a time, many years ago, shortly after I had qualified as a doctor, I got a job as a GP.
The Organic Human: An Endangered Species Licnese via Adobe Stock Ever since I offered my 2-year-old daughter a banana in a playgroup & she yelled at the top of her voice for some unfortunate reason, “IS IT ORGANIC?!” I’ve had an aversion to the word organic. I groaned inwardly as everyone else’s eyebrows nearly left
Cambodia: No Justice At 5-Year Anniversary of Kem Ley’s Death July 9, 2021 Today, in advance of the fifth anniversary of the unlawful killing of prominent political commentator and human rights defender Kem Ley, the 45 undersigned organizations reiterate their call for the Cambodian authorities to create an independent Commission of Inquiry tasked with conducting an independent, impartial and effective
No, Joe Biden is not “ending the war” in Afghanistan. The “big news” in the last couple of days is the American “drawdown” in Afghanistan.
Human Rights Watch Responds: Reflections on Apartheid and Persecution in International Law We appreciate the rich discussion triggered by this week’s EJIL Talk! symposium, which has addressed a number of legal issues arising from our report “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” The report has received significant media attention and sparked many useful conversations since
South Sudan at a Crossroads What are some of the biggest challenges South Sudan has today? South Sudanese voted to secede from Sudan in January 2011 and became an independent state on July 9 that year.