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UN High Commissioner calls for mental health care to be based on human rights

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, opened the Human Rights Council Intersessional consultation on Mental Health and Human Rights, on 15 November 2021. In addressing the panel experts and participants from across...

Sexual violence in schools in Russia

This is shown by a number of scandals and journalistic investigations in recent years Sexual violence does not seem to be an exception in Russian schools. This is shown by a number of scandals and...

60% of migrants who spoke to WHO/Europe on the Belarus-Lithuania border need some form of medical attention

The Regional Director calls for the health of migrants along the Belarussian border to be protected and depoliticized Copenhagen, 12 November 2021 WHO/Europe has sent a team of experts to Lithuania for a rapid assessment to...

Psychologist wants women to do a state exam before a wedding in Russia

Russia has proposed introducing a state exam for women before marriage. The idea was presented in a petition by psychologist Philip Litvinenko, IA DEITA writes. The initiative is not a sexist "joke", but rather the...

COMECE releases the first report of its Interfaith Youth Convention

COMECE releases the first report of its Interfaith Youth Convention The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) releases on Wednesday 10 December 2021 the first report of its Interfaith Youth Convention, which gathers young Europeans sharing their hopes and recommendations for a better care...

Spanish psychiatrist facing jail for psychological harassment

The Public Prosecutor's Office asks for the conviction of Javier Criado for the "psychological harassment and bullying" of a patient. A patient of the psychiatrist Javier Criado, in the trial for alleged malpractice: "He...

3 Reasons Why Diversity Matters to CEOs

Peter Mousaferiadis, the founder and CEO of Cultural Infusion, the company behind Diversity Atlas, shares his reasons why diversity matters to CEOs and how to embrace this zeitgeist moment in time. It’s no secret that in...

Salaries for Afghanistan health workers sends ‘message of hope’ to millions

By the time the Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August, at the main hospital in Maidan Shar, a city of 35,000 in the center of the country, many of the staff had been paid in months. Essential supplies such as medicine and food were scarce and disappearing fast.

Russian Ministry of Justice recognizes film about ‘Zionists’ filmed in USSR extremist

On November 8 RIA Novosti reported the Soviet documentary film "Secret and Clear. Aims and Deeds of the Zionists" *, filmed in 1973, is included in the list of extremist materials, follows from the...

Religious News From Around the Web November 8, 2021

Sikh Festival Draws 100,000 to Yuba City, Calif.; Texas Voters Amend State Constitution, Expand Religious Liberty; Judge: Religion Exempt From LGBTQ Bias Liability; U.S. Supreme Court On Religious Liberty Cases; Christian Website Designer LGBTQ...

Amhara voices of despair from East Wellega

Photo credits: SM/Borkena – TPLF militia On 4 November, the EU High Representative issued a declaration about the situation in Ethiopia in which he stressed that “the EU is particularly worried about the recent escalation...

Venezuela: International Criminal Court Investigation Opens

Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch Maduro Atrocities to Receive International Judicial Scrutiny (Washington, DC) – The decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to open an investigation...

Ukrainian neo-Nazis threaten a Ukrainian blogger in Spain

Anatoliy Sharij, a Ukrainian videoblogger, has been on the run in Europe since he left his country in 2011 to save his life which was threatened by neo-Nazis. In the summer of 2011, an...

Enhancing Inter-regional Cooperation to Combat Trafficking in Persons by Air in Eastern Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf States

© UNODC Dubai (United Arab Emirates), 4 November – Malaika Oringo is a survivor of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) from Uganda. When she was 15 and her mother died, a man convinced her that he...

The Human Rights problem of the Council of Europe

In a surprise move, the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe shoved the hot potato of the possible new legal instrument on the use of coercive measures in psychiatry, that the committee...

How the scheme for transferring migrants through Belarus to Germany works

At the Polish-German border: police detained migrants who entered Germany illegally. The transfer of illegal migrants through Belarus and Poland to Germany does not stop: more than 6,000 people have already arrived on this route...

France has accused Lukashenko’s family of trafficking in migrants

France last month accused the family of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of being behind human trafficking, "cleverly organized" towards the EU through Turkey and Dubai, AFP reported. "This trafficking in human beings is organized...

Act now to stamp out child labour by 2025: FAO chief

Effective action and strong leadership are essential to end child labour by 2025, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.

International Shock: A Eugenics Ghost is still alive and kicking around in the Council of Europe

The Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe over the last years has been preparing a new legal instrument on the use of coercion in psychiatry. The instrument is technically a Protocol to...

Human rights defender launches “Organcide”, a new notion for Chinese organ theft practices

Falun Gong demonstrating in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington DC. - William Neuheisel, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Andy Vermaut hopes that organcide can especially raise awareness around organ theft among...

Religious News From Around the Web November 1, 2021

President Biden “a Good Catholic” Says Pope Francis; Buddhist Reality and Freedom From Illusion; Ásatrú, Viking Religion on Rise in Iceland; Religious Exemption to Vaccine Mandates Rejected by Supreme Court; America: An Evolving Identity...

The European Convention on Human Rights designed to authorize Eugenics caused legislation

Human rights according to the United Nations, are rights we have simply because we exist as human beings – they are not granted by any state. These universal rights are inherent to us all,...

The Old World and the selection of those who does not have the rights to liberty and security of person

The European Convention on Human Rights was drafted by groups and experts within the forming Council of Europe in 1949-1950, based on an earlier draft produced by the European Movement. After extensive debates, the Council...

What gift Joe Biden gave to Pope Francis

US President Joe Biden had an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29, Reuters reported. The agency notes that it took place against the backdrop of the heated debate in...

Human Rights are basic inalienable rights, but not a static thing

The European Convention of Human Rights, lists out basic rights and freedoms which can never be breached by the States, that have ratified the Convention. These include such rights as: the right to life...
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