Before the opening of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgical hospital in Kunduz Province, northern Afghanistan, people in the region suffering from severe in...
2012 © Google The cities of Jaar, Lawdar, and Aden in southern Yemen, where health facilities are receiving increasing numbers of patients injured in conflict. SANA’A/NEW YORK, MAY 2...
Sudan 2012 © MSF Mothers and children at an MSF facility in Jebel Si, where obstacles threaten MSF's continued operation KHARTOUM/BARCELONA/NEW YORK, May 22, 2012—As a result of...
Headline Title: Azerbaijan: Eurovision is deaf to human rights abuses 22 May 2012...
L’altérité culinaire constitue l’essence de notre alimentation moderne. La coexistence de nourritures locales et internationales est le meilleur reflet de notre époque mondialisée, où l...
Wars keep children out of school. So does sickness. But in Niger, a sun-baked land where drought occurs with alarming frequency, a major impediment to education is thirst and the long trek required to...
The European Union said on Monday it would provide an extra five million euros in humanitarian aid to Yemen this year, to help combat a food crisis which it said threatens to further destabilize the c...
Ein Plus an Teilnehmern und mehr erfolgreichen Abschlüssen verzeichneten die Integrationskurse in Deutschland im zweiten Halbjahr 2011. Insgesamt erreichten rund 92 % der Teilnehmer in den Prüfungen...
The VOICE Refugee Forum activists presented the placards to control the riot police by their own crimes and to stop police brutality against the protesters http://initiative-christy-schwundeck.blogspo...
The deaths of 20 children, in an outbreak of measles in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Agency (FATA), are raising concerns over the state of immunisation in the conflict-ridden areas along t...
Research into experiences of forced labour/exploitation was conducted with migrant workers in the food industry across England and Scotland. A deeper understanding of the circumstances under which for...
Files Tenaganita will continue to defend human rights and not be cowed by intimidation or harassment, said its executive director Dr Iren...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like The Malaysian government should withdraw politically-motivated charges against opposition leaders who participated in the “Bersi...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Azerbaijan sent an ominous message about the government’s commitment to fundamental freedoms as the police violently dispersed two p...
From its imposing 14-storey building, Thailand's criminal court hands down verdicts that rarely trigger a backlash. Those condemned to long imprisonment include Thais who supposedly violated the dra...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like The Malaysian government should withdraw politically-motivated charges against opposition leaders who participated in the “Bersi...
2012 © Google The town of Balcad in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams in Somalia’s Middle Shabe...
GENEVA, MAY 21, 2012—The world’s health ministers, gathering in Geneva for the World Health Assembly (WHA) this week, will decide whether or not to start the process for a binding agreemen...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Angolan security forces frequently abuse irregular migrants during expulsions from Angola, including sexual violence and other degradi...
As Egyptians prepare to elect their country's first president since the uprising that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military junta that has ruled for the last 15 months has shown little sign i...
Headline Title: Mexico: Freedom of expression under attack as six journalists killed 21 May 2012...
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The term "sustainable development" emerged in the 1970s and 80s as awareness grew of the natural limits within which human development takes place. Despite near-universal recognition that it is a powe...
The UN World Food Programme launched the distribution of cash vouchers for the purchase of food in Senegal's Ziguinchor region, for people hit by poor harvests and high food prices. (..) "Our objectiv...
Bern. In Brüssel haben am 21. Mai 2012 die Verhandlungen über die Teilnahme der Schweiz am Europäischen Unterstützungsbüro für Asylfragen (EASO) begonnen. Zu den Hauptaufgaben von EASO gehört e...
Bern. In Brüssel haben am 21. Mai 2012 die Verhandlungen über die Teilnahme der Schweiz am Europäischen Unterstützungsbüro für Asylfragen (EASO) begonnen. Zu den Hauptaufgaben von EASO gehört e...
Headline Title: Independent investigation urged after Lebanon checkpoint killings 21 May 2012...
Files Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United Statesface a high risk of sexual violence and sexual ha...
Files As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant...
Files Migrant workers have played a central part in the economic success story of many South-East Asian countries in recent years. As these co...
Files The fifth WSFM will carry the theme “Mobility, Rights and Global Models: Looking for Alternatives.” The Forum aims to strengthe...
Die Broschüre „Flüchtlinge im Labyrinth“ erklärt das EU-Asylzuständigkeitssystem „Dublin II“ und...
Voici la nouvelle formule inventée par l'EVAM pour les migrants à l'aide d'urgence :un lit entre 19 h et 9h du matin et après ....la rue avec leurs affaires sur le dos. C'est « une organisati...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like United Nations member countries should call on the Philippine government during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Ri...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Angolan security forces frequently abuse irregular migrants during expulsions from Angola, including sexual violence and other degradi...
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Have women around the world become more empowered in their reproductive health and rights over the past 18 years? This is one of the questions that some 300 parliamentarians from around the world wi...
Age-old battlegrounds in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli have descended into violence once again. While the events are highly disturbing they are not necessarily surprising for Lebanon's resident...
Headline Title: Ukraine: First-ever Kyiv pride cancelled in face of ultra-right threat 20 May 2012...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like NATO governments at the May 20-21, 2012, summit in Chicago should endorse measures to bolster oversight and accountability of Afg...
The current British immigration policy under the conservative-liberal government aims to ‘limit non-EU economic migrants, ...reduce inflow, [and] minimise abuse of all migration routes’ (H...
As the Camp David G8 Summit winds down, international agency Oxfam criticized G8 leaders for failing to renew measurable funding and policy commitments to help address global food security.
Tweet Widget Facebook Like On Wednesday, May 23 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW) will launch its first China report of 2012: “Beat Him, Take Everything Away” A...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Military soldiers beat and tortured protesters they arrested at a demonstration near the Defense Ministry on May 4, 2012, Human Rights...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) should articulate concrete human rights benchmarks for Egypt, Jordan, Moro...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Alabama Governor Robert Bentley should call for the full repeal of the state’s immigrant law. It violates the right to equal protect...
International agency Oxfam warned that today’s announcement of the "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" focuses too heavily on the role of the private sector to tackle the complex challeng...
Headline Title: ‘Virulent’ homophobic attacks put South Caucasus activists at risk 18 May 2012...
President Barack Obama today will call for a new phase of African food aid focused on private- sector development to ease threats to global security posed by scarce nutrition. (..) Obama will announce...
The Obama administration has drafted some of the world’s largest food and finance companies to invest more than $3 billion in projects aimed at helping the world’s poorest farmers grow enough food...
The Obama administration is announcing a major new initiative to boost investments in rural Africa in hopes of lifting millions out of poverty. Several African leaders are in Washington, D.C., for the...
MARCHE EUROPÉENNE DES SANS–PAPIERS ET MIGRANT.E.S DU 2 JUIN AU 2 JUILLET 2012 La Coalition Internationale des Sans-papier.ère.s et migrant.e.s (CISPM) appelle toutes les coordinations de sans-papi...
Die Toten Hosen unterstützen PRO ASYL – und das schon lange. Auf dem Neuen Album der bekanntesten...
Ahead of the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA), taking place in Geneva next week, International agency Oxfam has warned that the fundamental role of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the leading a...
Film "Residenzpflicht": in Weimar am 22.5. - in Bielefeld am 29.05 - in Berlin am 06.06 (mit Mbolo Yufanyi im Migrationsrat) http://thevoiceforum.org/node/2544 "Refugees, fight for yourselves!" - Mi...
Des experts en climatologie tirent la sonnette d’alarme devant l’afflux des réfugiés africains: ils préconisent le verrouillage des frontières. Au Congrès israélien sur la climatologie, les...
Des experts en climatologie tirent la sonnette d’alarme devant l’afflux des réfugiés africains: ils préconisent le verrouillage des frontières. Au Congrès israélien sur la climatologie, les...
Alors que Le Tulipier accueillera, lundi, les premiers migrants, l’EVAM peaufine leur arrivée. «C’est beaucoup mieux qu’un abri de protection civile», explique d’emblée Cécile Ehrenspe...
Alors que Le Tulipier accueillera, lundi, les premiers migrants, l’EVAM peaufine leur arrivée. «C’est beaucoup mieux qu’un abri de protection civile», explique d’emblée Cécile Ehrenspe...
Le parlement va durcir la loi. Les requérants érythréens, mal intégrés en Suisse, seront-ils moins nombreux à venir? La Suisse cherche à endiguer le flot d’Erythréens qui demandent l’a...