Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 6:47 am
Rise For Lives, a new youth-led peace and human rights
movement is organising a national peace walk which will take
place on the 27th of February, 2021 to bring attention to
the Yemeni Crisis, the largest humanitarian crisis on the
planet in the past 100 years.
Nine cities will be
participating in this national peace walk. Some cities will
have amazing speakers, singers, and dancers at their
walks.
To gain a deeper understanding of the situation
in Yemen, the youth behind Rise For Lives have reached out
to the United Nations. They have provided them with facts
about the dire situation in the country and linked the
GENEVA (8 February 2021) – UN human rights experts expressed serious concerns at the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation at the Al Hol and Roj camps in northeast Syria - home to over 64,000 people, mostly women and children - and .
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 1:29 pm
Following the disappearance in Paraguay of a
teenage girl and killing of two 11-year-olds, the UN human
rights chief has expressed her deep concern, also noting on
Friday other disturbing elements of abuse against women and
girls, surrounding the cases.
According to
Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for the High Commissioner for
Human Rights (OHCHR),
14-year-old Paraguayan citizen Carmen Elizabeth Oviedo
Villalba, has reportedly been missing
since early December.
On 2 September, she had
apparently witnessed a Paraguayan Joint Task Force operation
against members of the armed guerrilla group known as the
Paraguayan People’s Army (Ejército del Pueblo
Te Kaunihera
Akonga o Wairaka, Unitec Student Council respond to the
claim of institutional racism at Unitec.
As the
elected voice of Unitec students, the Unitec Student Council
(USC) are deeply concerned about the dismantling of Māori
leadership at Unitec and its impact on Māori student
success. The dismantling of Māori leadership will not
provide a safe learning environment for Māori students and
their whanau, as Māori.
Irene Farnham, Māori student
representative, says “In the absence of strong Māori
leadership, Māori student leadership loses confidence in
the Institute’s ability to provide equitable access to
Sunday, 31 January 2021, 2:30 pm
Young people throughout Aotearoa have made it clear that
urgent action is needed towards an equitable, resilient and
zero carbon future, with the latest findings from the
Climate Change Commission echoing these concerns. Aotearoa
will miss its emissions reduction targets if it doesn t
engage in strong and decisive action now.
“We
conceptualised the Zero Carbon Act to establish a Climate
Change Commission to provide independent, expert analysis of
what is needed to get us to a zero carbon future. Now we
must follow a path to action as outlined by the
commission” says Generation Zero spokesperson Grace