Mexico is struggling with a profound human rights crisis. Unionised teachers have radicalised in response to a reform of the education sector whose main pillar is the adoption of a mechanism that will evaluate teaching capacities through standardised testing instead of investing in teacher training or school facilities. Federal and state police contained a teachers’ protest on the
Protests against the government were held throughout Ethiopia to call for political reforms. The police shot at the crowd resulting in a massacre.
Macedonian police fired teargas and rubber bullets at migrants trying to cross the border in Idomeni, Greece. Women and children were left wounded.
Beyoncé’s latest video, Formation, and her show at the Super Bowl evoke the Black Panthers and have fuelled arguments about racism in the United States.
Following this trend, by the end of 2015 the American police will kill 1,109 people in a year, reaching the dreadful average of 3 people killed each day. The estimation comes from an investigation carried out by The Guardian, which decided to launch a counter (The Counted) that tracks, also thanks to readers’ signals, the
After days of verbal disputes, tensions, and psychological pressures, physical violence has arrived. Hungarian police decided to use violence to placate refugees, which are forced in a camp protected by barbed wire as if they were prisoners, near the city of Horgos, along the border with Serbia. Refugees tried to break the barriers to
The number of times Norway’s policemen fired their guns in 2014 is surprising compared to the growing violence in many countries of the western part of the world. Only two bullets have been fired, and no one has been killed or injured. And what is more, Norwegian officials drew their weapons only 42 times, the lowest
Sexual violence is used by Egyptian security forces to repress opposition, alleges a report by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH). Whilst such tactics are not new to the country, arbitrary arrests and detentions have multiplied since the current military regime came to power in 2013, especially to suppress the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the
