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As representatives of the world’s governments arrive in the air-conditioned conference rooms of the UN’s crucial COP28 climate summit in the United Arab Emirates, the future of the Amazon is being forged in remote places where local residents face ruthless forces of destruction. Rainforests are immense carbon sinks and preserving them is key to mitigating climate change.
One of those places is Terra Nossa, a land-reform settlement in Brazil’s Pará state that is intended to balance small-scale agriculture and forest preservation.
More than one billion. That’s how many people live with a disability around the world. One in six of us. When we factor in family members, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, we come to realize that disability affects someone we know.
However, people with disabilities remain largely excluded from the mainstream human rights agenda. As a global human rights organization with a dedicated team focusing on disability rights, we see our role as allies and partners, fighting alongside people with disabilities and their representative organizations.
For the first time in years, Iranian female football fans were allowed to cheer for their favorite teams at the Tehran Football Derby – a match between famous rivals Esteghlal and Persepolis –on December 14 at the Azadi Stadium.
“Azadi” means freedom in Persian, but for nearly four decades, women and girls were banned from games in stadiums. They were threatened, detained, and even jailed for trying to cheer on their favorite teams in person.
Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups, Human Rights Watch said in a report released earlier this month. The report documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights.
Human Rights Watch found that theproblem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals.
Houthi authorities have sentenced a human rights defender to death based on charges of espionage and “aid[ing] the enemy,” Human Rights Watch said earlier this month.
They should quash the verdict and end their escalating repression of residents’ free expression and women’s rights.
Women and girls with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan experience abuse including rape, beatings, neglect, and humiliation, often by those closest to them, Human Rights Watch said in a report published earlier this month.
Kyrgyzstan has taken positive steps in recent years to tackle domestic violence and to uphold the rights of people with disabilities and should act now to protect women with disabilities from such violence.
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