Stories about Human Rights from July, 2018
Natural resources surrounded by terror: What is behind the attacks in northern Mozambique?
Since October 2017, Cabo Delgado Province -- a region rich with rubies, gas, oil, and wood -- has suffered violent attacks, the motives of which are unclear to local authorities.
Chinese mobile phone cameras are not-so-secretly recording users’ activities
This design feature has given Chinese mobile users a tangible sense of exactly when and how they are being monitored.
Kashmiris are once again in mourning after Indian army fires on protesters, killing three
A 16-year-old girl named Andleeb Jan was among the dead.
Uganda's tax on social media will widen the digital gender gap
"When I interviewed women living in...a slum in Kampala, I learned that for them, WhatsApp and Facebook are the internet...with the new tax, they will be cut off altogether."
Ugandans say #NoToSocialMediaTax because it exploits women, youth and the poor
Ugandans are saying #NoToSocialMediaTax because it is unconstitutional, increases poverty, targets youth, and exacerbates the digital divide.
First comprehensive study on child abuse in Madagascar points to alarming level of violence
89% of children report having suffered from domestic abuse at least once and 30% of minors in the island have had a child.
Wrongly labeled as ‘foreign agents’, Russian environmentalists face regulatory punishment — and violent threats
Instead of recognition as patriots striving to protect the nature of their homeland, Russian environmentalists get labelled as “foreign agents” by the state, experience pressure, and suffer physical attacks.
The threat of a restrictive NGO law looms over Slovakia
"Mr. Fico and Mr. Pellegrini. The main motivation of our protests is Jano and Martina. If you disrespect it with conspiracy theories, you are laughing at the motivation"
Lebanese journalist sentenced to prison in absentia, for ‘defaming’ foreign minister on Facebook
From exile in the UK, Fidaa Itani says the sentence marks the end of an era for free expression in Lebanon.
The women behind Armenia's “Velvet Revolution”
The massive protests that felled a long-time ruler showed citizens' impatience for political reforms. But many women want change to go even further.