Category: Human Rights Defenders’ messages
Human Rights Agency congratulates journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize laureates. We regret that anti-media rhetoric and attacks on journalists and media workers continue to increase. Journalists are responsible for seeking the truth, giving it context, and providing it to public to ensure new conversations and representation. They are on the front […]
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) was recognized by the United Nations in its resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992. On that day, the United Nations ensures that the knowledge, contributions and experience of people living in poverty are recognized and celebrated. Read More Theme: Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting […]
For the Human Rights Agency, journalists are on the front line of defending and promoting the rights of all citizens to freedom of expression and access to information, which are fundamental rights and enabling rights for achieving all social, economic, political, and civil rights. Journalists have a social responsibility to seek the truth, give it […]
People of African descent twice as likely to die from Covid-19, according to the UN. “People of African descent suffer unacceptable violence, including from the police. They rely on often inadequate basic infrastructure services; disproportionately lack adequate access to quality education, health and social protection services and are less likely than others to find decent […]
The United Nations and its partners hope to provide humanitarian assistance to 160 million people this year, according to UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. The United Nations and its partners hope to provide humanitarian assistance to 160 million people this year, according to UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. During a Security Council debate on the […]
According to the UN and the World Food Program (WFP), 5.2 million Ethiopians, or 91% of the population of Tigray, are in need of emergency food assistance. Five days after the capture of the regional capital Mekele by the Tigray Defense Forces, the international community is concerned about the dire humanitarian situation there. More than […]
Inter-communal violence and repeated attacks over the past six months by groups such as the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), have claimed many civilian lives. The increase in human rights violations and abuses in Mali since last August is deeply worrying, Michelle Bachelet, United Nations […]
Nine months after the last coup in Mali, the military arrested the Transitional President, Bah N’Daw, and his Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, and some of their collaborators. The two leaders were brought Monday evening to the Kati military camp about fifteen kilometers from the capital Bamako. The United Nations and human rights defenders deeply concerned […]
For the World Health Organization (WHO), one in three women continues to experience physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner or sexual violence from someone other than her own Partner during his life and this violence starts very early. Violence disproportionately affects women living in low- and lower-middle-income countries. About 37% of women living […]
UNESCO has undertaken the publication of a book highlighting the struggle of African women to liberate the continent from the colonial yoke and to affirm the values of Pan-Africanism. The actions of these women, many and often little known, testify to the commitment of women to assume their roles and responsibilities in the future of […]
