Social issues

(Beirut) – Parties to the conflict in Yemen, including the Houthis, the Yemeni government, and the Southern Transitional Council (STC), are systematically violating women’s right to freedom of movement, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities are barring women from traveling between governorates, and in some cases from travel abroad,

(Beirut) – Religious leaders in Iraq conduct thousands of marriages each year, including child marriages, that flout Iraqi laws and are not officially registered, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. These marriages violate women and girls’ rights and may leave them in precarious positions without social or financial

Trust the Evidence has started a list of people and institutions who pushed the harmful and destructive idea that you could “suppress” or “eradicate” SARS-CoV-2 using social measures, for example, “lockdowns.” “Those listed below showed crass ignorance of respiratory viral epidemiology, and they are likely to approach other topics with

Tomorrow the 20th and again on the 21st February WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face his final hearing before the United Kingdom’s High Court regarding his extradition to the United States. Assange’s hearing will determine whether the Australian journalist—who has been imprisoned in London’s Belmarsh Prison

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