Mientras Brasil sufre un parate económico y una crisis institucional, muchos servicios públicos han sufrido recortes a fin de liberar fondos antes del inicio de los Juegos Olímpicos que comienzan hoy. Los estudiantes, como respuesta, han ocupado escuelas en forma pacífica, alrededor del país, para hacer valer sus derechos.
With Brazil suffering an economic slowdown and a major political crisis many public services have been hit with cuts to free up cash ahead of the Olympics. Students have occupied schools across the country to fight back.
'Radicalisation' has become a fearful term, and measures to prevent it in children are often excessive, even resulting in them being accused of extremism for simply exploring their own ideas.
Saudi Arabia allegedly plans to execute more than 50 people convicted of terrorism, including two sentenced as children, two Saudi newspapers reported this week.
This report demonstrates how the international human rights framework can be used to initiate rights-based advocacy against human rights violations that result from the harm caused by hydraulic fracturing (fracking).