Burmese Workers Launch Strike, Crackdown Intensifies
Burma’s main labor unions have launched a general strike as mass protests and the violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators intensifies.
Read moreBurma’s main labor unions have launched a general strike as mass protests and the violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators intensifies.
Read moreThey demand an end to harassment & persecution and ask that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights be allowed to return to the country.
Read moreThe political prisoner regrets being in jail for demanding justice, freedom, and democracy. However, he said he will not give up doing so.
Read moreThe prosecution asked for 16 years for supposed drug trafficking. A Judge also delivered a guilty verdict against 23-year-old Brayan Cornejo.
Read moreIn Italy, dozens of humanitarian aid workers have been charged with complicity in human smuggling refugees.
Read morePope Francis is planning to travel to Baghdad Friday and is scheduled to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Saturday.
Read moreCampos Mello, a 2019 recipient of CPJ’s Press Freedom Award, has said the environment for journalists has worsened under President Bolsonaro.
Read moreThe highs will be between 25 and 28° C (77 and 82 F), and the lows between 18 and 21° C (64 and 70 F). The sea surface will be 25° C (77 F).
Read moreThe Committee to Protect Journalists joined three human rights groups calling on Nicaragua to end the widespread harassment the press.
Read moreThe Biden administration has withdrawn an environmental review for a massive copper mine in eastern Arizona on sacred Native peoples’ land.
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