Human rights

A campaign that seeks to promote international cooperation for human rights from local governments.

On September 28, the presentation of the campaign 'Our rights, everyone's' took place in Barcelona, which invites local governments to get involved in the international protection of Human Rights.

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The United Kingdom has begun to transfer the first asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm ship.

Organizations like Amnesty International denounce that the measure deepens the dehumanization of migrant individuals and is clearly harmful to human rights.

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The coup d'état in the West African country occurred on July 26th.

Xavier Torner, president of the Catalan organization Dniger.cat, talk about the possible consequences for the region of the military uprising in Niger.

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Ursula von der Leyen, Mark Rutte, Giorgia Meloni and Kaïs Saïed, during the signing of the agreement. Source: Twitter @vonderleyen

Human rights defender organizations criticize the Brussels pact and the Tunisian government for abandoning hundreds of sub-Saharan refugees at the borders with Libya and Algeria.

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In Palestine, thanks to the Palestinian Farmer's Union, pilot projects are already being developed to address the effects of climate change on agriculture.

Agricultural practices centered around the use of pesticides and chemicals significantly exacerbate climate change, which is why the Palestinian Farmer's Union is already devising methods to change the sector.

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The current president, Macky Sall, has announced that he will not be running for a third term as the president of the country.

Lamine Sarr talk about Macky Sall's decision, who has announced that he will not run for re-election following popular pressure and the serious protests that the country has experienced.

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Accusing a person or a collective falsely of terrorism with very weak evidence is a growing trend that threatens democracy.

The International Institute for Nonviolent Action, Novact, presents the study 'Don't Call Me a Terrorist When I'm Not', which has analyzed false accusations of terrorism that have occurred in the Euro-Mediterranean region and their consequences.

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The new migration regulation that is key to completing a new Migration and Asylum Pact in the European Union (EU).

Advocacy organizations for the rights of refugees are wary of the first step of the Migration and Asylum Pact in the European Union, agreed upon by European interior ministers.

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Laila Ajjawi, artist and advocate for the rights of migrants and refugees.

As part of the ‘Cities Defending Human Rights’ program, artist and activist Laila Ajjawi visits Barcelona to share the story of her art, her community, and to emphasize her identity as a Palestinian refugee.

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The Clean Clothes Campaign has organized a tribute to the victims of the Rana Plaza tragedy.

The initiative has made this demand coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, in which over a thousand textile workers died.

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The Afghan authorities have imposed a ban on female aid workers from carrying out their work in Afghanistan. Source: Unsplash (CC License).

The prohibition imposed by the Taliban regime has been extended to female personnel of the United Nations, who have opened the door to suspending their task in the country if the ban persists.

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Caminando Fronteras numbers more than 2,300 victims who attempted to enter Spain in 2022.

The organisation highlights the lethal consequences of the necropolitical boundary in a report entitled 'Monitoring the Right to Life - 2022’.

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