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Photo by Levi Meir Clan cy on unsplash.com   The majority of the education systems in Europe often overlook or completely leave out the role of women within human history. Recently, research conducted by the English group  End Sexism in Schools  (ESIS) discovered that, during the first three years of secondary education in England, women were “largely absent from history”. According to this research, 29% of history classes at key stage 3 mentioned women’s role in the given to

Photo by @pezhman1355 on Unsplash.com NGO Iran Human Rights is denouncing a record number of executions being carried out in Iran in September 2025, and more generally in the first 9 months of 2025. The NGO denounces at least 171 executions in the month of September 2025 alone, an unprecedented number which brings the number of executions since the beginning of the year to over 1000 . This is the fifth consecutive year that Iran has experienced an increase in death penalties

Photo by jorono on Pixabay.com Since late January, fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has intensified after the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group seized the strategic cities of Goma and Bukavu, sparking a wave of human rights abuses.   Amnesty International reports that M23 fighters have raided hospitals, abducting patients, including wounded soldiers and civilians, from their beds and subjecting them to torture.  The organization has documented cases of

Photo by dimitrisvetsikas1969 on pixabay.com   Houthi rebels have recently released United Nations (UN) staff members who were illegally detained in Yemen. In recent years, dozens UN employees have been imprisoned, and some have died while in custody; this highlights an ongoing human rights issue that has been firmly addressed by the international community. In October, Houthi rebels detained 20 UN staff  in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, including five Yemeni nationals and 15 int

Photo by Daniel Omolewa on Unsplash.com On September 25, 2025, the Netherlands and Uganda signed a Declaration of Intent,  representing yet another problematic case of the externalization of migration management .  Promoted by the extreme right-wing component of the Dutch political landscape (PVV) , this scheme delegates the most critical phase of the asylum procedure,  the coercive return of rejected international protection applicants, to a third State.  This raises complex

Photo by hosnysalah on Pixabay.com In the past two years, due to the attacks perpetrated by the Israeli forces, the situation in Gaza has been exacerbating: people without shelters and forcibly displaced, with no access to basic needs and medication , resulting in barriers to accessing care. Within this scenario, women and girls are facing a living ordeal which undermines their health and could lead to gynecological hurdles , not to forget the psychological implications relat

Photo by sasint o n Pixabay.com Since the entry into office of US President Donald Trump at the beginning of 2025, there has been a  backsliding in terms of access to healthcare services and information at the hands of the Trump administration . Citizens are facing the increasingly alarming repercussions of budget cuts, the undermining of access to healthcare information, and the non-transparent handling of private medical data. In February, the Trump administration had restr

Photo by  Marília Castelli  on unsplash.com On 28 October 2025, a massive police operation was carried out in the northern favelas (slums) of Alemão and Penha, located in Rio de Janeiro, targeting the criminal organisation known as Comando Vermelho (Red Command). The operation, under the name of Operation Contenção (Operation Containment), was reported as the deadliest police action in the city’s history. As residents described it, “This was a slaughter, not an operation" . I

Photo by Leon_Ting  on pixabay.com The State of Viet Nam continues to suppress citizens’ fundamental rights of expression. At the end of September, an imprisoned citizen, Trịnh Bá Phương , was sentenced to another 11 years for criticizing the ruling Communist Party. The dissident was already serving a ten-year sentence, passed in December 2021 , for “spreading anti-state propaganda”.   According to the prison officials, in Trịnh Bá Phương’s cell was found a banner denouncing