Tag: Citizens’ rights

  • Tackling Acid Attacks: Reducing Violent Crime & Supporting Victims

    Per capita the UK has one of the highest rates of recorded acid attacks in the world. According to Acid Survivors Trust International, in the year leading up to March 2020 there were 619 crimes committed in the UK where corrosive substances were used – a 37% increase since 2017. Research suggests that many of…

  • In Spain, 9 Catalan separatists were pardoned

    The opposition described the act as a blow to democracy The Spanish government has unanimously approved Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s proposal to pardon nine of the politicians in prison for holding the illegal referendum on Catalonia’s independence in 2017. They are to be released from prison after King Felipe VI signs a decree releasing them,…

  • The little woman who started the big war

    210 years since the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe Every child who has started reading knows her name. Because she is the author of one of the most beloved children’s novels – “Uncle Tom’s cabin”. Her name is Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe – an American writer, mother of many children, free-thinking person and fighter against…

  • The Netherlands is starting to pay compensation to the victims of Srebrenica

    The Potocari Commission has opened an office in Sarajevo for potential plaintiffs The Netherlands begins paying compensation to the families of victims of the Srebrenica massacre. The Potocari Compensation Commission opened an office in Sarajevo for potential plaintiffs, and its website is open to reports from family members of people killed after being taken away…

  • Thousands of Bulgarians facing deportation from Britain over Brexit

    More than 15,000 Bulgarian citizens have been denied residence Brexit could end in deportation for thousands of Bulgarians living on the island. The deadline to settle their status in the UK expires in three weeks. Certainly, after July 1, Bulgarians who cannot prove their right to live in Britain will have serious problems. To date,…

  • A French “sister” of the Statue of Liberty leaves for the United States

    The work is based on a 3D digitization of a plaster model from 1878, used by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi to build the Statue of Liberty, donated by France to the United States in 1886. A French “sister” of the Statue of Liberty in New York left for the United States, world agencies report. The…

  • On this day, slavery was abolished in the United States

    In 1862 the US Congress abolishes slavery in the country. At the heart of the removal was President Abraham Lincoln, who was later assassinated precisely because of the law. In 1865 a final amendment was made to the constitution that abolished slavery in the United States. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, delegates fiercely debated…

  • The World Health Organization wants to ban women from drinking alcohol

    The WHO proposes a ban on alcohol for women of childbearing age, according to the draft Global Plan of Action against Alcohol for 2022-2030. According to the document, the parties should raise public awareness of the dangers of alcoholic beverages, but special attention should be paid to children, pregnant women and women of childbearing age.…

  • Deinstitutionalisation: Planning inclusion in Greece

    Across the European Union, hundreds of thousands of persons with disabilities, persons with mental health problems, older people and children live in segregated institutions. These were originally created to provide care, food and shelter, but proved to be harmful to their quality of life and participation in the community and wider society. Greece is among the…

  • Russian prisoners recorded audio stories for their children

    The action “Audiobooks for convicted children” was held in Russian penal colonies. In different regions, those serving sentences read the works on record, so that the files would then be handed over to their families. The project was timed to coincide with Children’s Day, which is celebrated on June 1. Thus, in the correctional colony…