Category: Human Rights
The rise of the political extreme right
Fascists get power by promoting a loud, outspoken leader who preaches fear and hatred of foreigners, promotes isolationism, nationalism and proclaims to make their nation great again- as Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Assad did. Even Donald Trump shows traits of being fascist.
Conditions ‘not right’ for Rohingya return to Myanmar
MANDALAY (UCAN): United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has said conditions are…
Religious intolerance in Pakistan claims another victim
BHAGIANA (UCAN): Saleem Masih, a Christian farm worker, died on February 28 after he was…
The people will speak
Students jumping the turnstiles in protest against a 3.7 per cent rise in metro fares…
The enforced culture of fear and silence
A case of gang rape of a 19-year old young British woman in Ayia Napa in…
Double slap for Rohingya refugees at the close of 2019
It has been two years since Abdul Kalam fled his village home in Myanmar’s Rakhine…
The defenders of human rights
The sale of human beings by human traffickers into the bondage of sex slavery is an atrocious form of human rights violation. This modern kind of slavery is not the same as human exploitation of the past but it is very much with us today in our world and it is greater than it ever was. Sex tourism and online child sexual exploitation are contributing to the expanding sex trade
