Report: Venezuela ramps up efforts to quash opposition as human rights crisis grows
1 of 4 | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (C) celebrates his controversial election win, in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29. A new report Tuesday says…
Georgia’s parliament approves law curbing LGBTQ rights | LGBTQ News
‘Family values’ bill is adopted despite being denounced by the president, rights groups and the European Union.Georgian politicians have approved the third and final reading…
Israel will become a ‘pariah’ over Gaza ‘genocide’, UN rights experts say | Israel-Palestine conflict News
United Nations rights rapporteurs also slammed the ‘double standards’ of countries that support Israel’s devastating war on Gaza.United Nations human rights experts have warned that…
Boeing freezes hires, weighs furloughs to cut costs in labour strike | Labour Rights News
Boeing is freezing hiring and is weighing temporary furloughs in the coming weeks to manage costs as a strike by more than 30,000 Boeing workers…
Peru holds funeral for Fujimori, former president linked to rights abuses | Conflict News
Fujimori’s funeral draws well-wishers as well as detractors as debate over his legacy continues to roil the country.Peru is holding a state funeral for former…
Ratings agencies warn of downgrade if Boeing strike prolonged | Labour Rights News
Boeing’s management will likely need to access new sources of liquidity in the event of a prolonged strike.Fitch Ratings and Moody’s have joined S&P Global…
Boeing workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, halting aircraft production | Labour Rights
Union members vote to walk off the job at factories in Seattle and Portland in latest blow to aircraft giant.Boeing’s roughly 33,000 factory workers on…
Boeing workers ‘ready to go on strike’ if demands unmet | Workers’ Rights News
Boeing’s United States West Coast factory workers stood in long lines to vote on Thursday on a much-criticised new contract, some loudly calling for a…
Alberto Fujimori, ex-president of Peru jailed for rights abuses, dies at 86 | Politics News
Polarising Latin American leader had been released from prison in December on humanitarian grounds.Alberto Fujimori, the polarising former leader of Peru who was credited with…
US greenlights military assistance to Egypt, overruling rights concerns | Weapons News
Biden administration approves $1.3bn in military aid for Egypt, despite reports that rights abuses remain widespread.The administration of United States President Joe Biden has said…
Painting from prison: Egypt’s iconic activist, Inji Efflatoun | Women’s Rights
Inji Efflatoun – artist, feminist and communist in mid-20th-century Egypt, was jailed for her political activism.An artist, communist, feminist and a champion of the poorest…
Video: Family mourns 10-year-old girl killed in her roller skates in Gaza | Child Rights
NewsFeed10-year-old Tala Abu Ajwa was playing in pink roller skates when she was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza. Her family have been talking…
Nebraska at standstill over restoring voting rights of felons
Voters cast their ballots in the New Hampshire Primary at a voting site at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., on Jan. 23. File Photo by…
Ruling imperils Missouri abortion rights ballot measure
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge ruled Friday that an abortion rights campaign did not meet legal requirements to qualify its constitutional amendment initiative for…
Indonesian fruit-pickers say seasonal work in UK left them drowning in debt | Labour Rights
Medan, Indonesia – Indonesian workers who paid thousands of dollars to travel to the United Kingdom to pick fruit say they face the prospect of returning…
Maori in New Zealand anoint a new queen | Indigenous Rights News
New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed a 27-year-old queen as their new monarch. The choice of Nga Wai hono i te po Paki was welcomed…
An Indian fixer lured workers to Italy. They say he used threats, violence | Labour Rights
Ladnun, India and Padua, Italy – When Sandeep migrated from India’s Rajasthan state to Italy in 2009, he was fulfilling a long-held dream of relocating…
A tech revolution in rural India: Training poor women in STEM | Women’s Rights
Kandabari, India – On a sunny morning in Kandabari village in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, a group of students is learning to…
Voting Rights and Capital | Financial Post
Article contentTotal Voting RightsIn conformity with the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, we hereby notify the market of the following:Shell plc’s capital as at August…
Harris campaign to launch 50-stop reproductive rights bus tour
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks to supporters at a campaign event in Savannah, Georgia on Thursday. She announced a bus reproductive rights bus tour…