LGBTQ+ activists protest World Bank’s work toward resumed lending to Uganda 76crimes.com/2024/10/04/l...#LGBT#LGBTQ#LGBTrights#humanrights#LGBTQrights#homophobia#Uganda#WorldBank
Activists are outraged that the World Bank is moving forward with plans to restart lending to Uganda without adequate measures to protect people from
Senior Ugandan official calls for decriminalization of homosexuality. Uganda Human Rights Commission created a new desk to deal with LGBTQI+ cases 76crimes.com/2024/10/07/u...#LGBT#LGBTQ#LGBTrights#humanrights#LGBTQrights#homophobia#Uganda
The Chair of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) Mariam Wangadya has called for the decriminalization of homosexuality, at a training event about
In Lebanon, war has led to mass evacuations of some areas. However, the govt will only assist Lebanese citizens with temporary housing. Homeless migrants are now flooding many Lebanese cities. #HumanRights#MigrationLawaje.io/lh8q5o
Some of them were born and raised in Lebanon, but in war they have no place in the authorities’ support programmes.
United Nations CCPR/C/USA/CO/5 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Distr.: General 7 December 2023 Original: English Human Rights Committee "Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the United States of America *" docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices...#HumanRights
Thailand’s lèse-majesté law criminalizes insults or threats to the royal family. But as David Scheffer explains, this law has been broadly used to suppress a growing pro-democracy movement. #HumanRightswww.justsecurity.org/103645/thail...
Will the General Assembly elect Thailand to a seat on the Human Rights Council despite the country's decline in human rights protections and democratic freedoms?
History matters: Young Africans want heroes from the African decolonization movement. But is Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea—who killed 50,000 people in a concentration camp—a man who should be a “hero”? Should Guinea forget its past? #CompetingPerspectives#HumanRightsf24.my/Ae17.X
Forty years after his death, Ahmed Sékou Touré, the father of Guinea's independence, is more popular than ever. For young people across West Africa in search of a hero, Sékou Touré could be what they'...