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Qatar human rights: Concerns over fate of missing female activist rise

Qatar human rights: Concerns over fate of missing female activist rise

Qatar - Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), among other rights groups, has called on the Qatari authorities to present proof that female activist Noof Al-Maadeed is alive and healthy after reports have emerged stating

Malaysian government to use app to keep migrant workers’ exploitation in check

Malaysian government to use app to keep migrant workers’ exploitation in check

Malaysia - The Malaysian government announces the launch of an application which will be used to tackle growing cases of exploitation against migrant workers. The application is especially dedicated to the prevention of such exploitative

Unattended Migrant Worker Kids At Risk, Creches In Demand

Unattended Migrant Worker Kids At Risk, Creches In Demand

India - Migrant working parents are feeling extremely vulnerable to the prospect of leaving their children alone at home. There is a risk of children being sexually abused. This is being seen to be more

Hyderabad: 16 child labourers rescued; 3 held at Nacharam

Hyderabad: 16 child labourers rescued; 3 held at Nacharam

India - The Rachakonda Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) rescued 16 child labourers on Tuesday from Hyderabad. They were forced to work at a printing press company in the Industrial Development Area (IDA) limits at

Serious human rights issues warned of by groups as Qatar World Cup 2022 worker jailed

Serious human rights issues warned of by groups as Qatar World Cup 2022 worker jailed

Qatar - A former senior World Cup 2022 media manager, Abdullah Ibhais has been jailed for three years in Qatar. And now his appeal against the controversial sentence has been rejected – the sentence that

Apple Finds Itself Cornered Over Labor Law Malpractice

Apple Finds Itself Cornered Over Labor Law Malpractice

United States - A whistleblower has disclosed that the software giant Apple might have stolen from the environment. A full-blown investigation is underway with the US Department of Labor. The tensions between the secretive company

Americans are rejecting work for their mental health

Americans are rejecting work for their mental health

United States - Americans are putting their mental health over employment as they are rejecting work. Unemployed Americans say mental health issues are the primary reason they are refusing to work. In recent months, the

Hungary: LGBT Law Breaches International Human Rights Standards

Hungary: LGBT Law Breaches International Human Rights Standards

Europe - A board of experts of the Council of Europe human rights body, Venice Commission said that Hungary's law bans teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues in schools. The group said on Tuesday that

Venezuelan migrants in Brazil: a hopeful travel sans healthcare and shelter

Venezuelan migrants in Brazil: a hopeful travel sans healthcare and shelter

Brazil - In July when northern border of Brazil with Venezuela opened partially, many migrants and asylum seekers took the plunge and crossed the border. The travel was in hopes to find some reprise from

Is the Taliban making the human rights situation worse in Afghanistan?

Is the Taliban making the human rights situation worse in Afghanistan?

Afghanistan - Ground level access to many of the happenings in Afghanistan has become a very difficult process as after the Taliban takeover, freedoms, rights have been heavily compromised. But the United Nations is one