Posts Tagged with ‘human rights’
Aida
How can young people in Kazakhstan speak up for themselves and create change?
Watch my video and let me know what you think. Today in my region, young people face a lot of problems and challenges, ...
MADRE, MADRE
Like many Palestinian women living in the Gaza Strip, 40-year-old Maryam struggles to provide safe drinking water for her family.
Israel has restricted the movement of people and goods into G...
Lisa, George Washington University
While the right to water and the right of water may seem to be the same thing to many people, the two are extremely different. I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference on the right t...
Jonathan, Anderson School of Management at UCLA
You may be woman, but I can’t hear you roar. In fact, I can’t hear you at all.
Maybe it is because you don’t really have time. No one can blame you. But maybe if you, and the hundreds of mi...
John, Water Advocates
There is a photograph that travelers inevitably take when they go to a developing country -- a picture of a woman carrying a large container of water on her head. The woman's posture is ramrod strai...
Sonam, Global Voices
If only governments would take a second look at religion and see how it stands in the way of improving the lives of its marginalized populations, it has the potential to hasten the process to achievi...
kabukabu
What is the purpose of government, if not to safeguard the rights of its citizens? Many people working with victims of domestic violence in developing countries will agree that the law often does not ...
Sonam, Global Voices
The Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thilney, signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the UN on September 21st, 2010, on the occasion of the 2010 UN Treaty E...
Maya
Imagine that life is a role-play game where the plot develops as a result of the decisions you have made and the puzzles you have solved.
So how could you win this game? What happens if someone st...
Guillaume, Tostan
Jokko (or Jokoo) means “communication” or “dialogue” in Wolof, a national language in Senegal, West Africa.
Since 1991, Tostan has brought its holistic, human rights-based, 30-month non-f...
Shulamith, PDHRE
Fighting for basic human rights is the key to solving all of humanity's problems. It's a hard struggle, but one that affects us all.
Our future is beyond our vision but not beyond our control - Se...
Mary, Co-Founder, All Our Lives
Though many politicians in the U.S. believe that maternal healthcare is unnecessary, maternal healthcare should be universal and guaranteed for every woman.
Last year, the US debate over health ref...
Juliana, Global Voices Online
The ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still an issue that demands our attention. Children recruited as soldiers are particularly vulnerable in the DRC. In these videos, citizens of...
IPS News, IPS
By Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli
Robert Dijksterhuis, Jac SM Kee, Monia Azzalini,Paula Fray, Thenjiwe Mtintso and Laila Al-Shaik.
Credit:Miren Gutierrez/IPS
Violence aga...
Micah
The Democratic Republic of Congo still tolerates violent sexual assault. Despite recent free and fair elections, the war continues to use rape as a weapon of war.
Goma, North Kivu, DRC – Coming f...
Shambhu, CSDS (www.csds.in)
Violence against women in India isn't just a current issue, but rather has deep seated traditional roots in the culture. In order to combat the problem, we must understand its causes.
In India, t...
Tanya, Halton Public Health
Many international non-governmental organizations focus on the empowerment and progress of women. Here are some of the most relevant ones.
On this past International Day for the Elimination of Viol...
Radha, UNFPA
‘Conversation starters’ answered the questions: “What are some of the best practices in preventing trafficking?” and “How do we protect victims from further abuse and violence?” Below is a...
Radha, UNFPA
It's shocking: Between 500,000 to 2 million people, mostly women and children, are trafficked every year according to a UN study on violence against women.
There is an urgent need to eradicat...
Imran Ahmed, MFA, Pakistan
I have dealt with this and other female issues in my country. There are various trends that perpetuate domestic violence. I have listed some of my conclusions.
Domestic violence is one of th...
Elisa, Designmatters atArtCenter
Art and policy joined forces as the Art Center College of Design launched a campaign to spread awareness.
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As a community of visual...
Eddie, Global Voices Online
Activist Ursula Rakova has been leading the way to raise funds to help relocate the residents from the Cataret Islands in Papua New Guinea, where it is estimated that by the year 2015 all of the islan...
Juliana, Global Voices Online
When a woman dies during pregnancy, childbirth or due to complications after delivery, it affects not only the family, but also the whole community.
These videos, by different human rights organiz...
Amy
How do we avoid imposing our Western imperialist talk about “rights” on young women whose core beliefs diverge from ours?
Photo by Julia Kurc: Distributing cameras to the girls.
Earlier t...
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