Refugees have been left behind in the race to vaccinate
Despite being one of the most vulnerable groups during the pandemic, refugees have disproportionately suffered from the virus and have had little access to vaccinations. … Read more →
News on Human Rights Abuses Worldwide
Unaccompanied refugee children at risk after Kent County Council declares exhausted capacity
Kent County Council (KCC) has announced that it no longer has the resources to house any more unaccompanied child refugees. Already operating far beyond maximum capacity, the council presently cares for around 400 unaccompanied refugees … Read more →
Human rights must take the forefront as President Biden meets Turkish President Erdoğan for the first time
Today (Monday 14 June 2021), on the peripherals of the NATO summit in Brussels, American President Joe Biden will meet with his Turkish counterpart President Erdoğan for the first time since being elected. The two leaders constitute the two biggest NATO militaries and both sides will enter discussions with a healthy list of topics they… … Read more →
Unprecedented child labour increase must be a “wake-up call”
As World Day Against Child Labour approaches, it has been revealed that the number of children being put to work worldwide has increased, the first time this has happened in two decades. … Read more →
Medact report exposes steady criminalisation of mental health among UK Muslims
Mental health assessments, conducted in liaison with counterterrorism forces, are criminalising mental illness among Muslims and raising “serious ethical concerns”, according to a newly published report by public health charity Medact. … Read more →
“Terrorist attack on Canadian soil”: Muslim family killed in a premeditated vehicle attack
On 6 June 2021, four members of a Muslim family were killed in London, Ontario. Madiha Salman, 44, her husband Salman Afzaal, 46, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna Afzaal, their 9-year-old son Fayez Afzaal, and Mr Afzaal’s 74-year-old mother were on an evening walk in their neighbourhood when … Read more →
Over 170 organisations call for total prohibition of biometric surveillance
A group of more than 170 organisations have signed an open letter, calling for an outright ban on the use of facial recognition and remote biometric recognition technologies globally. … Read more →
Coerced sterilisation of Uyghur women in Xinjiang
A recent study by German researcher, Adrian Zenz, has revealed that China’s birth control policies could reduce the Uyghur population in Xinjiang by a third over the next 20 years. In that time, China’s regional policies could lead to a cut between 2.6 and 4.5 million births. … Read more →
Priti Patel seeks to suppress online posts that “glamourise” lethal migrant crossings
After a viral video on TikTok portrayed a group of refugees crossing the channel in a rubber dinghy, Priti Patel, the UK’s Home Secretary, has published a letter calling on social media companies to remove posts that “glamourise” migrant crossings. … Read more →
UN-backed study finds that climate change is partially responsible for intensified spread of invasive pests
A study by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has found that the spread of famine-inducing invasive pest species is the latest humanitarian consequence of climate change. … Read more →