Eleven worldwide human rights organizations wrote a letter to the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico dated March 9, 2017 calling on the adoption of the General Law on Torture that complies with international standards.
Immigrants held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Denver Contract Detention Facility have alleged that the private prison forced them to work for $1 per day. This suit was first filed back in 2014, but has now been awarded class-action status.
Dalits, India’s outcast group who are often socially and economically discriminated, are rising to reform the caste system. Some Dalits are converting from Hinduism to Buddhism to escape the inequality that is engraved within the caste system.
Kafala law in Qatar perpetuates a system of human trafficking, where Immigrants become a “commodity in a profit generating system.” In Qatar it is estimated that there are 1.8 million migrant workers, and 1,000 die every year.
In September 2016 the Block the Bunker campaign in Seattle was the first to persuade American city officials to divest police funding and allocate more for community services.
An investigation launched by the FCC on Jan. 17, 2017 concluded that AT&T and Verizon were in violation of the Open Internet Order and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 for providing favourable pricing for their zero-rate service to their in-house content providers.
On February 23, 2017 the Chinese government released an updated version of the Regulations of Education of Persons with Disabilities that still leaves students with disabilities vulnerable to discrimination.
On March 9, 2017 a group of peasant farmers from Honduras launched a suit in US federal court against the World Bank (WB) Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). The suit alleges the IFC and WB are “knowingly profiting from the financing of murder.”
Journalism student Lea Majcen reminded Slovenians, and other democratic nations, of the importance of journalism by revealing an exceedingly unqualified government official.
In 2016, the E.B Campbell Hydroelectric Station’s 50-year operating license came up for renewal. The dam is located in eastern Saskatchewan, has been running since 1966 and is owned by SaskPower – a Crown corporation of the Government of Saskatchewan.
