International
The inauguration of the new Congolese government is an opportunity for an NGO collective to demand clear commitments from the executive to prioritize justice and punish serious crimes. From words to action, this is what 50 NGOs are asking Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and his government to end impunity and penalize those responsible for serious […]
Africa is enriched with valuable human and material resources, which underlie the economic growth and development. Nevertheless, among such numerous resources, this continent has to deal with the greatest challenges of poverty (Nosiru & Sodique, 2019). Poverty in Africa is primarily structural and has simultaneous features of being both chronic and transitory (Christiaensen & Hill, […]
Director of the WHO regional office in Europe, Dr Hans Kluge at a press conference on the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted one million deaths in the European region. France is expected to officially exceed the 100,000 dead mark very soon, and in Belgium, which has 11.4 million inhabitants, 23,603 people have died from Covid-19. Hospitalization remains […]
Over the recent years, significant attention has been paid to human rights education (HRE), and this issue has gradually found its place in the language of governmental departments, NGOs, educational institutions, international human rights entities, and other related communities. It seems that the need for human rights education is an undeniable fact in today’s world […]
The human rights law principally highlights the underlying fundamental rights to the survival and basic well-being of all societies and human beings, consisting of the right to life, health, and acceptable living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the conditions and exacerbated the current human rights violations. According to the human rights law, every one […]
The UN on Sunday issued a warning about an increased risk of atrocities in Myanmar, after another day of bloody crackdown by the Burmese army. Saturday was the bloodiest day since the protests against the coup began. Security forces killed at least 107 people and hundreds more were injured and detained in apparently coordinated attacks […]
One of the important goals set in 2015 was eradication of poverty by 2030 embraced worldwide. An examination into the African population’s contemporary conditions along with its prospects for tomorrow reflect the fact that despite fundamental progress made in the continent since 1990s, poverty is still increasing and the problem has mainly remained unsolved. This […]
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 […]
Powerlessness, illiteracy, violence, hunger, absolute poverty are only some of the concepts familiar to the African people even today. A variety of stragetgies have been employed since five centruies ago to exploit African human and natural resources. During this period many young Africans were merchandized, the trade wad dominated and controlled, the African institutions, cultures […]
According to a report by the World Meteorological Organization devoted exclusively to the African continent, rising temperatures and rising sea levels as well as the increase in extreme weather phenomena threaten the health and socio-economic development of Africa. Droughts, warmer temperatures, flooding and even a frequent locust invasion as well as a persistence of diseases […]
