The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights published its assessment on human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China. Authored by Michelle Bachelet, the report attest to large-scale arbitrary and discriminatory human rights violations against members of Uyghur and other minority communities in China. The report concluded that these violations carried …

Signing on to International Human Rights Instruments is often considered to be an important indicator of compliance with human rights around the world. Many countries are criticized on the global level for their failure in signing, ratifying, or acceding due these documents. However, signing on a piece of paper brings about little difference when it comes to human rights violations. …

Ignoring calls for clemency from families and the international community, the Burmese junta executed four men for the first time in more than three decades. This marks a new threshold in the repression carried out by the Burmese army since the coup of February 1st, 2021, led by General Min Aung Hlaing, which threw the Southeast Asian country into a …

It is no secret that the world’s attention tends to be selective; to pick and choose among the issues that are easier to get behind and cause outrage at any given time. While modern media allow determined stories of injustice to not only come to the surface, but also to be widely addressed, which can undoubtedly not be considered reproachable, …

In Europe, the past months have been regarded as showcases of the extents of humanitarian and governmental solidarity, as millions of refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine were welcomed across the continent. Such openness towards Ukrainians, however, bitterly highlights the hypocrisy inherent in the differences in treatment of asylum-seekers of other provenances, of which the latest refugee policy of the …

In Singapore, there are 32 offenses that could potentially warrant death sentences, 4 of these call for the mandatory death penalty, in fact, judges are not able to take into consideration mitigating circumstances when sentencing Murder, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, and possession of unauthorized firearms, ammunition or explosives. However, since an amendment to the law in 2012, the mandatory death penalty …

Jamal Khashoggi was about to launch a campaign to discredit the use of the social network Twitter by the Saudi regime, when he was assassinated in Turkey. A New York Times investigation reveals how the social network has been infiltrated by the Saudi secret services and how troll farms, paid by the government, crush all attempts at criticism via this …

Children’s detention in Iraqi prisons and Syrian camps Since four years ISIS’s attacks have decreased, however the number of Children detained in Iraqi prisons increase drastically. The main reason relies on the fact that children are treated as criminals, since the minimum age to engage criminal responsibility is nine years old. In addition of the extreme young age of the …

On the 19th of January 2022, the new European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) replacing the EASO started its work under the new pact on migration and asylum. Its main purpose will be to strive for uniformity within the EU of the reception standards and enhance a fairer and faster decision making by the member states in the asylum’s applications. …

On Wednesday, January 19, Israel police has forcibly evicted a Palestinian family of 15 people from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, a controversial and predominantly Arab neighbourhood in East Jerusalem bordering the Old City and West Jerusalem. The latter is a neighbourhood situated in East Jerusalem and it has always been at the core of the Israel-Palestinian dispute. The eviction, …