by Tendayi Chirawu | 14 Sep 2020 | Women's rights, World
A viral campaign on Instagram meant to empower women has its recent roots in a bleak reality familiar to women who are victims of violence in Turkey. Women march in support of the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women, Istanbul, Turkey, 19 July...
by Rashad Mammadov | 22 Aug 2020 | China, Human Rights, Nationalism
The Uighurs are not the only ethnic minority in China. Beijing’s repressive tactics reflect fears a separatist movement could threaten the state. Uighurs in Hotan, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, 6 April 2008 (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Last...
by Feizal Samath | 18 Aug 2020 | Asia, Human Rights
South Asia is no stranger to political dynasties. Sri Lanka’s ruling family is prompting worries about human rights and ethnic tensions. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (L) and his younger brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 9...
by Tom Heneghan | 11 Aug 2020 | Women's rights
Men have long dominated the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church. But there is a whiff of change in the air as women eye positions of power. Marianne Pohl-Henzen, who was appointed to a senior Catholic administrative post previously held by a priest, in Fribourg,...
by John Mehaffey | 27 Jul 2020 | Human Rights
International sport resumed play this month, altered by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. An empty stadium and a show of support for the Black Lives Matter movement revealed how much the sporting world has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the...
