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Pirate Party members from around the world convened virtually earlier this month for the 2023 Pirate Party International Winter General Assembly. The assembly included representatives from over two dozen countries, including the United States, as well as more than a dozen observer parties. Pirate Parties International, a nonprofit organization that…

For several weeks, the authors have been in conversation about their response to the current crisis and the role of art in political resistance

LAST SUNDAY, December 10, we observed the annual service in recognition of International Human Rights Day at Christ Church in Vineyard Town (Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands). The celebration acknowledges that the Universal Declaration of...

Seventy-five years ago last week, UN member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was not a binding law, only a statement of principle. But it was the first declaration to embed an ancient moral ideal of human equality into the new architecture of international law established in response to the genocidal nationalism that had left so much of the world in ruins after World War I...

Introduction Social determinants of health, such as living and working conditions, economical and environmental context and access to care, combine to impact the health of individuals and communities. In French Guiana (FG), the persons working in informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the rainforest are a particularly vulnerable population which lives in precarious conditions and far from the health system. Previous studies have demonstrated their high morbidity due to infectious dise...

Seventy-five years ago last week, UN member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was not a binding law, only a statement of principle. But it was the first declaration to embed an ancient moral ideal of human equality into the new architecture of international law established in response to the genocidal nationalism that had left so much of the world in ruins after World War I...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday called on citizens everywhere to draw inspiration from the work of countless rights advocates across the world and defend all human rights and fundamental freedoms.

(RNS) — Human rights advocates are experiencing a painful purgatory of in-betweenness.

The 'On Record' project brings together various groups, including academics, cartoonists, curators, lawyers and experts in mapping Palestine, to...

A lifetime dedicated to the defence of orangutans and their habitat. Everyone knows the popular Jane Goodall, who has won many awards for her work but who