Ongoing “summary executions,” torture, rape and repression of Taliban opposition was cited by the U.N. on Tuesday as evidence of what lies ahead for Afghanistan as President Joe Biden presses ahead with plans to withdraw U.S. forces.
The Taliban’s swift advance across Afghanistan has created an enormous refugee crisis, as thousands of civilians are displaced from their homes by the brutal insurgency and humanitarian aid grows difficult to deliver.
Cuban-born pop star Gloria Estefan demanded Joe Biden take the lead in condemning the Communist dictatorship in Havana for its suppression of mass protests.
Jamaica plans to seek billions of pounds in reparations from the UK as compensation for the Atlantic slave trade.
The U.N. human rights chief on Monday demanded comprehensive reparations be made to compensate countries that have suffered what she called the deadly legacies of slavery, colonial rule and racial discrimination.
Senior Iranian official Majid Tafreshi, a member of the Iranian regime’s High Council for Human Rights, argued on Wednesday that executing underage children is not a “symbol of violations of human rights.” Tafreshi said Iran executes children under 18 about “three or four times” a year.
The U.N. human rights chief on Monday called on the world to immediately dismantle systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to the oppressed — including reparation payments while groups like Black Lives Matter should receive “funding, public recognition and support.”
Hongkongers ignored inclement weather and began lining up at one o’clock in the morning on Thursday to buy the final edition of Apple Daily, the pro-democracy newspaper crushed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with police raids and asset seizures last week.
Israeli forces may have committed war crimes in its defense against attacks by Gaza Strip-based terrorist group Hamas, the U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet sdeclared Thursday.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro revealed via Twitter on Wednesday that he had concluded an “excellent videoconference” that day with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who previously accused him of “grave human rights abuses.”
Plans by Nigeria to castrate rapists and execute pedophiles have been condemned as “draconian” by a furious Michelle Bachelet, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Cuban ecologist and human rights activist Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola began a hunger strike Monday before the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights offices in Geneva, asserting that the Castro regime deliberately infected him with HIV and consistently persecuted him and his family.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has queried the response of international lawmakers to the demands of climate protesters, lamenting some people on the streets had problems with democracy.
The U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned Friday that climate change will cause serious “harm to Human Rights” as well as producing “powerful conflicts” among peoples.
The former head of Venezuela’s national intelligence service, Manuel Cristopher Figuera, on Wednesday denied claims he ordered the torture of political prisoners, despite previously apologizing for his involvement in that very crime.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet charged the Maduro regime in Venezuela on Friday with “grave human rights violations,” following the publishing of her report on the country.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó and reaffirmed America’s commitment to helping the country defeat the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro in a statement published Friday to commemorate the South American nation’s independence day.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet met with members of the Maduro regime, the opposition, and human rights groups during her visit to Venezuela this week.
Former president of Chile turned United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to meet with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and legitimate President Juan Guaidó.
Spanish actor, artist, and pop icon Miguel Bosé – a household name in Latin America for decades – has launched a pressure campaign to elicit action from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet that culminated with the singer storming the hotel housing her in Mexico on Tuesday, demanding she break her silence on the crisis in Venezuela.
The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner and former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, has expressed concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in Venezuela, yet also criticized U.S. sanctions against the Maduro regime designed to cripple their access to financial resources.
The government of Burundi has forced the United Nations to close its local human rights office, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on Tuesday.
The United Nations issued a report on Wednesday that found torture, sexual violence, and extrajudicial murder rampant in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which not coincidentally is grappling with one of the worst Ebola outbreaks in history.
Colombia presented a complaint to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Wednesday over the “arbitrary detention” of 59 of its citizens by the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, detained in Myanmar since December, were sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for “exposing state secrets” in their reporting on the massacre of Rohingya Muslims.
Chile has elected former conservative president Sebastián Piñera to another term, rejecting socialist opponent Alejandro Guillier in a result that marks the further collapse of socialist leadership across Latin America.
The Constitutional Tribunal of Chile has approved a bill that will allow abortion in some situations, a move that Socialist President Michelle Bachelet has campaigned for since 2015.
Politicians of all political stripes in Chile are facing an investigation into misuse of state corporate funding, which has, so far, incriminated eight political parties, a scandal overshadowed only by the alleged billions stolen from a state-run corporation in neighboring Brazil.
A group of Chilean pro-life activists held a protest in the middle of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Friday, shortly after Pope Francis received Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, whose government seeks to introduce abortion legislation in Chile, where the practice is illegal.
(Reuters) – Chile President Michelle Bachelet said she will reshuffle her entire cabinet in the next few days, a surprise announcement that indicates the depth of her concern about a collapse in her popularity.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has submitted a bill to the Chilean Congress that would liberalize the country’s abortion laws, allowing for abortion in the case of rape or when the pregnancy threatens the mother or baby’s life.