Human Rights · September, 2024

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Stories about Human Rights from September, 2024

Seeking independence from Chinese exports, Brazil enters bid to explore rare earths

China supplies between 85–90 percent of the world's rare earth material

Written by Laís Martins, Luo Jieqi

30 September 2024

‘Houses yes, shacks no': The housing project that came out of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution

SAAL appeared in the summer of 1974 aiming to create decent housing for the Portuguese people

Written by Tiago Gil

Translated by Liam Anderson

30 September 2024

Japan-born Nepali children struggle to ‘be Nepali’

Children of Nepali parents working in Japan adjust to life and school back in Nepal

Written by Nepali Times

30 September 2024

Censorship in the modern world

Today, truth and free expression often come at the cost of social sanctions

Written by Balkan Diskurs

28 September 2024

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a symbol of resistance, must be released on time

For many in Egypt and elsewhere in the region, Abdel Fattah has become a symbol of resistance against authoritarianism

Written by Walid El Houri

27 September 2024

Ghanaians rally online demanding justice for citizens arrested in protests against illegal gold mining

'I want to go! 48 Hours, not a lawyer! 48 hours, no food! No water!'

Written by Zita Zage

27 September 2024

Ex-editor of Hong Kong’s Stand News Chung Pui-kuen jailed for 21 months for sedition in landmark case

The duo are the first journalists convicted of sedition since HK's 1997 handover

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

27 September 2024

Iran’s new president must address repression of artists, dissidents at UN Assembly

Repressive measures continue to be used against political prisoners after they are released

Written by Guest Contributor

27 September 2024

GV webinar: The ABCs of digital repression in Venezuela

The event was co-organized between Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory and Advox

Written by Civic Media Observatory

27 September 2024

Anura Kumara Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election and calls for snap parliamentary elections

President Dissanayake vows to deliver the change the "aragalaya" movement demanded

Written by Rezwan

26 September 2024

Indigenous People defend traditional farming in northern Thailand

Blanket prohibition on burning has undermined traditional rotational farming

Written by Prachatai

25 September 2024

Ecuador: Two journalists who revealed corruption and drug trafficking forced into exile

Ecuador has become dangerous for journalists investigating corruption cases at the highest levels of state power

Written by Gina Yauri

Translated by Rowan Glass

24 September 2024

What is behind the Kremlin’s increasingly anti-immigration line?

The authorities are whipping up negative sentiments toward immigrants and are clearly trying to control them ideologically

Written by Russia Post

24 September 2024

Hong Kong Article 23: Three jailed over a seditious T-shirt, bus graffiti, social media posts in six months

The three were sentenced between 10 and 14 months in prison over political slogans

Written by Hong Kong Free Press

23 September 2024

Women’s plight in the Sahel: A central issue in Djaïli Amadou Amal’s works

The book world’s weak infrastructure is Sub-Saharan literature’s biggest setback

Written by Jean Sovon

Translated by Laura

21 September 2024

‘Truth deserves to be seen’: Artists decry film censorship in the Philippines

The filmmakers asserted there is nothing subversive in the films

Written by Mong Palatino

19 September 2024

Despite the enactment of a law granting women the right to share in family property, Nigerian women still face barriers to land-sharing

If a woman is given property in her father’s house, 'it means she will benefit more than the male'

Written by The Colonist Report

16 September 2024

Iran sees 80% spike in executions two years after protests

Iran has the highest per-capita rate of documented executions globally.

Written by Iran Open Data Center

16 September 2024

‘The Goat Life’: The film that angered the Saudis

A harrowing tale of survival and the dark side of migrant labor in the Gulf.

Written by Raseef22

15 September 2024

Operation Knock Knock: On the hunt for dissident voices in Venezuela

Venezuelan security forces target dissident voices in an operation informally called Operation Knock Knock

Written by ProBox

12 September 2024

VenApp, the Chavista app co-opted for harassment in Venezuela

The app was boycotted and reported after the presidential election

Written by ProBox

11 September 2024

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