Tag: Rights
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Ellinor: “While I still have power to fight for Indigenous rights in Norway, I will”
Ellinor Guttorm Utsi, 60, is a Sami reindeer herder from Norway. The Sami people are an…
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Kazakhstan Draft ‘Morality’ Laws Threaten Rights
Kazakhstan’s Senate adopted two rights-violating laws on December 18, both of them threatening freedom of…
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Aureja: “To claim our rights, first we must know them”
Aureja Ugne Mozeryte is the Policy and Advocacy Assistant at Amnesty International’s Europe Regional Office.…
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Denmark: ECJ ruling that ghetto law is potentially unlawful is important step in protecting basic human rights
Reacting to today’s ruling by the European Court of Justice that the Danish law on…
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China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad Are a Boon for Climate, but Human Rights and the Environment Are a Different Story
Planet China: Twelfth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the…
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EU: Deregulation deal on climate and human rights ‘betrays people and the planet’
Reacting to the European Parliament vote on the EU’s sustainability regulations package (Omnibus I) which…
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Russia: Prominent human rights defenders targeted under “undesirable organizations” legislation
Reacting to the detention of three prominent human rights defenders in Yekaterinburg on charges of…
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More than 1,000 Belarusians Remain in Prison for Exercising Their Rights
On December 13, Belarusian authorities released 123 prisoners following negotiations led by the US administration,…
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Morocco and Western Sahara: Feminist and LGBTI Rights Activist Imprisoned for Peaceful Expression: Ibtissame “Betty” Lachgar
Moroccan feminist and LGBTI rights defender, Ibtissame (“Betty”) Lachgar, is serving a 30-month prison sentence…
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Ukraine/Occupied Crimea: Human rights lawyers’ offices targeted by Russian anti-extremism and riot police
On 11 December 2025, officers from the Russian Interior Ministry’s Centre for Combating Extremism (“Centre…
