The One Love armband, which includes a heart containing colours representative of all backgrounds, was proposed by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Working Group in 2020 in support of inclusion of people from diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions, including but not limited to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+). […]
Tag: human rights
If global health equity is to stand a chance, the UK must cancel its plans to offshore asylum seekers to Rwanda
The United Kingdom (UK) government’s recently announced plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for offshore processing and never allow them to return to the UK raise major health and human rights concerns. The UK defends the policy by saying it aims to break smuggling networks and stem migration flow across the channel; a […]
Rohingyas, human rights and raising our voice
As I type this, there is a 14-year-old Rohingya girl sitting alone in a shelter home in the Indian state of Assam, probably scared and confused. She was returned to the home after being accompanied to the Indo-Myanmar border by eight police officers, upon the Indian government’s order to deport her back to Myanmar […]