UN rights chief seeks $500 million in 2025, warning that lives are at risk
GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work, such as investigating human rights abuses around the world from Syria to Sudan, warning that lives hang in the balance. The U.N. human rights office has been grappling with chronic funding shortages that some worry…
Trump Threatens Deportation for Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters
The Trump administration has announced a sweeping crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protesters, pledging to cancel the visas of foreign students involved in campus demonstrations. The executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, has drawn sharp criticism from free speech and civil rights groups, who warn that it could suppress dissent and violate constitutional…
NHRC Received Over 2m Human Rights Violation Complaints In 2024, Says Ojukwu
News Investigators/ The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) received over two million human rights violation complaints in 2024. The Executive Secretary (ES) of the NHRC Anthony Ojukwu, made this known in Abuja at the presentation of the December dashboard report on human rights violations in the country…
Ogyaba Won’t Do This – Pastor Elvis Donates Huge Sum Of Money And Provisions To Orphans At Mother Love
On Thursday, 23rd January 2025, the Alpha Humanitarian Project team, led by the Chief Alpharian, Pastor Agyemang Elvis, and his lovely wife, Lady Mercy Agyemang-Elvis, visited the Mother Love Orphanage in Kwabenya to extend their heartfelt support to the children and caregivers of the home. The team came bearing gifts of essential food items…
We must challenge rising demand for transition minerals, says UN rapporteur
The world must assess the full environmental and human rights impacts of developing new mining projects to power a green shift, warns Elisa Morgera The post We must challenge rising demand for transition minerals, says UN rapporteur appeared first on Climate Home News…
What’s the maximum human life expectancy?
Everything has to have a limit.’ The post What’s the maximum human life expectancy? appeared first on Popular Science…
UK to keep ban on asylum seekers claiming modern slavery protections
LONDON – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have previously criticised those measures…
Delta: DSC Steel Town in darkness 16 years after successive governments – Group
A group under the auspices of the Initiative for Social Rights Concerns and Advancement, ISRCA, also known as “No Justice, No Peace,” has said that Delta Steel Township, a residential area for staff members of the former Delta Steel Company (DSC), has been in perpetual darkness for the past 16 years…
UN rights chief seeks $500 million in 2025, warning lives are at risk
In 2025, we expect no let-up in major challenges to human rights,” High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk tells member states in a speech at the UN in Geneva…