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Europe
Change the framework. New perspectives for an intercultural society was a project that took place between October 2018 and November 2019 that sought to use creative audiovisual practice to show…
ECHR
Scenes of relatives desperately trying to find oxygen supplies for hospitalized COVID-19 patients in India last year, alerted the world to an acute, deadly problem. Yet that was not this…
Human Rights
During the Second World War, Pinchas Gutter, from Łódź, Poland, survived six Nazi concentration camps. Today he is a Holocaust educator, sharing his story in films and live events. As…
FORB
Contribution of Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, to the debate at the conference “Diplomatic Boycott of the Winter Olympics in China” held at the Press Club in Brussels…
ECHR
To mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday called for an international push to confront the inequalities that characterize NTDs, and ensure the poorest and…
Human Rights
More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday,…
America
A professional boxer catches the attention of Harvard Law and Yale in his biggest fight yet: to prove same-race discrimination against a famed Olympic medalist. These duties are not ones that…
Europe
MEPs honoured the memory of the Holocaust victims, 77 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp on 27 January 1945. Survivor of Holocaust victims, Margot Friedländer, and…
Charities
A special "humanitarian train" carrying 750 tonnes of aid under the coordination of the Turkish government left for Afghanistan from Ankara yesterday. The train, with the help of 11 humanitarian…
Education
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As victims of anti-Semitism, millions of Jews from all over Europe died in Nazi death camps. Today, in 1845, the few survivors of…
