Category: Human Rights

A pollution scene in India’s capital New Delhi which is the most polluted national capital in the world. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service
Environment, Human Rights

UN and UAE Urged to Protect Human Rights Before Climate Conference

A pollution scene in India’s capital New Delhi which is the most polluted national capital in the world. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service
A pollution scene in India’s capital New Delhi which is the most polluted national capital in the world. Photo: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service

UN and UAE Urged to Protect Human Rights Before Climate Conference

The petition asks the UAE to take meaningful steps to address the human rights crisis.

A slew of civil society organizations has urged the UN, UAE, and state parties to ensure human rights protection before the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference 2023, also known as Conference of Parties (COP28), taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 30 November to 12 December 2023.

Led by CIVICUS – which is a global alliance of civil society organizations – a petition has been signed by various groups asking UAE  to prioritize rights of most affected by climate crisis, allow dissent, and release illegally imprisoned activists.  read more

Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. Photo: UN
Human Rights

UN Expert Demands Release of Human Rights Defender Guo Feixiong in China

Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. Photo: UN
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. Photo: UN

UN Expert Demands Release of Human Rights Defender Guo Feixiong in China

Guo Feixiong is the pen name of Chinese human rights defender and writer Yang Maodong. 

Chinese authorities can no longer ignore calls for the release of human rights defender Guo Feixiong, whose health has been seriously deteriorating in prison, a UN expert said today (October 18).

“Mr. Guo Feixiong is unjustly imprisoned, and he is in a critical state of health,” said Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. “UN human rights experts have sent 10 urgent letters to authorities about his situation since 2006. He must be released immediately on humanitarian grounds,” she said. read more

Petition to Protect Human Rights in Manipur. Photo: RMN News Service
Human Rights

UN Human Rights, USCIRF Petition to Protect Human Rights in Manipur

Petition to Protect Human Rights in Manipur. Photo: RMN News Service
Petition to Protect Human Rights in Manipur. Photo: RMN News Service

UN Human Rights, USCIRF Petition to Protect Human Rights in Manipur

I sent a detailed petition to different authorities to seek their intervention for the protection of human rights and right to freedom of religion for people in the Manipur state of India. A part of the petition is given below.

To                                                                                                                                             July 25, 2023 read more