“Homelessness is a form of discrimination and social exclusion,” said Leilani Farha. On September 28, 2016 the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness hosted, via webinar, “Youth Rights! Right Now!” The webinar, moderated by Michele Biss, focused on grounding strategies to end…
While Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe recently restored voting rights to more than 200,000 people with previous felony convictions, at least 14 other states will go to the polls in the November 2016 election with new voting restrictions in place for…
“The era of exclusion is over,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said to a room full of delegates at the 26th Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU), which took place from January 21-31, 2016 at the AU Headquarters in…
In September 2015, a Tunisian court sentenced a 22-year-old student to one year in prison for homosexuality after he allegedly failed an anal exam that the public prosecutor’s department forced him to take. In response, LGBTQ activists in Tunisia argue…
“The true and real enemies of Swaziland, and its people, are those who are opposed to democracy . . . those who undermine the rule of law . . . and [those who] abuse the fundamental human rights, basic freedoms,…