More than 80% of European and East and Southeast Asian ships end up being dismantled on three Asian beaches to save costs, evading international regulations, in a process that is dangerous for the people and the environment, denounces Human Rights Watch
There is no evidence that Washington has compensated former detainees tortured in Iraq, according to an investigation by Human Rights Watch, which is calling on authorities to open a pathway for survivors to file claims
The lungs of Indians, Congolese and Bangladeshis are in worse condition than those of a person who has smoked for years. The UN wants to create a global fund to combat an issue that has become the world’s biggest public health problem
A study by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation states that the world is experiencing an epidemic of maternal and child mortality
A study by Doctors Without Borders and others warns of the proliferation of complications suffered by women following a terminated pregnancy in conflict-affected regions
Dorothy Estrada Tanck, co-author of the recent UN report on the situation of women in Afghanistan, trusts that ‘gender apartheid’ will become a crime against humanity and that those who instigate it will be held accountable
Those who left and those who could not flee speak of a country in ruins and decry the world’s apathy towards the humanitarian crisis and the lack of rights, mainly for women, which a UN report describes as ‘gender apartheid’
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza — the main political opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame — accuses her country’s government of ‘silencing opposition’ and focusing on ‘whitewashing its international image’
Pneumonia is a silent pandemic that causes more deaths than the coronavirus, but receives neither the attention nor funding necessary to combat it. Around 700,000 children under the age of five die every year from it, mostly in poor countries
Hansen’s disease is one of humanity’s oldest afflictions but remains one of the most unknown, neglected and stigmatized, despite the fact that a cure has existed for 40 years. In 2021, the WHO recorded a 10% increase in cases — another side effect of the pandemic