The Ethiopian government is under fire from human rights and pro-democracy groups after it rearrested several prominent bloggers and members of the opposition that had been released just a few weeks ago. According to the Financial Times, former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn released the eight politicians...
While many around the world celebrated the New Year, small groups of protesters gathered in cities across Sudan to protest the rising cost of bread. Known as the ‘bread protests’, they occurred after the Sudanese Government announced in late December that it was eliminating subsidies in...
At the Munich Security Conference this February, experts were asked what they considered to be the main global challenges of 2018. Cyber attacks and cyber-related security threats stood out as a major concerns for all nations. David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee, warned that...
The UK is the only member of the European Union that has indefinite immigration detention. Only until September, 2017 had seen over 27,000 people put into detention centres under the government’s new migration policies, according to the Amnesty International. Nonetheless, last week, Home Office minister Brandon...
As the people streamed into the Institut français in downtown Tunis to attend to the first queer film festival in Tunisia and the Maghreb their faces reflected everyone’s excitement and emotional turmoil. To have such an event take place in a country where homosexuality is still...
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Brazil consumes 18% of the world’s cocaine, in spite of accounting for less than 2% of the world’s population. This puts Brazil in the 2nd position in the world ranking of cocaine consumption, just behind...
In different parts of the world, human rights violations emerge on a daily basis, leading to forced displacements, refugees, genocides, deforestation of natural reserves, and a variety of social problems. Throughout history, the people affected by human rights violations have resisted these abuses in different ways,...
On 6 December 2017, the government of Bangladesh announced that they would move ahead with their plan to move Rohingya refugees off the mainland to remote islands. About 100,000 of over one million Rohingya refugees currently living in Bangladesh will be moved to the small island...
In Libya, three rival governments compete for legitimacy and control over resources in the power vacuum of a “stateless country”, amidst the deterioration of the economy and the judicial system. The United Nations-backed, internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), which struggled in 2016 to assert...
Supposedly, slavery was abolished centuries ago. But most recent statistics say that in Europe over 1 million people are slaves, victims of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and forced labour. Italy is one of the European countries, along with Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Romania where modern slavery...
Many migrant women reach Europe with the hope of a better life, only to be subjected to domestic servitude across the continent. While it is not as publicly recognised as sexual exploitation, domestic servitude can trap its victims for years and it is often harder to...
The topic of gender has become more than a hotbed for debate in Brazil - it has become dangerous. In November 2017, not only was the famous American philosopher Judith Butler harassed during a visit to the country, but local researchers have also had to contend...
Since July 2016, when a section of the Turkish military led a coup attempt to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the state of emergency in Turkey has repeatedly been extended. This constant state of emergency has allowed the President and his administration to take decisions and act...
In November, Israeli Police arrested a Palestinian man in response to what was believed to be an unsettling Facebook post. The post, which pictured him leaning against a bulldozer in the Beitar Illit settlement, was followed by a caption that led officers to suspicion. Police officers...
United for Iran is an NGO that aims to defend human rights in Iran by increasing the awareness of civil society and engaging citizens through technology. Their project Safe Activism: Reducing the Risks and Impact of Arrest is an innovative attempt to secure the rights of...
Words In The Bucket is a team of global citizens with the common goal of raising awareness and information about issues related to human rights protection, social inclusion, development and environment.
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