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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.
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...
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...
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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 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...
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...
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...