WASHINGTON, May 16 (Yonhap) -- Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill to reauthorize North Korea's 2004 human rights law that requires U.S. assistance and...
Human rights issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will come under scrutiny during the first visit of the UN Expert Mechanism on t...
Tearing up the Human Rights Act would have 'disastrous consequences', including removing obligations to properly address violence against women and girls and de...
Ombudsman agrees to consider Cambodian NGO complaint alleging that IFC financing contributed to human rights abuses in the context of microfinance.
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The fifth group of officials of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) officially ended their seven-year term on May 5, creating a vacuum within the agency that...
Human rights groups have urged Romania to reject a bill banning so-called "gay propaganda" in schools, like those introduced in Hungary and Russia.
The ...
The Dutch Council for Human Rights College voor de Rechten van de Mens received a record number of complaints and questions about discrimination last year, with...
Dharamsala, April 30 (IANS): The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has welcomed the visit of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to China and other reg...
How else to explain the Biden administration's penchant for lecturing other countries on human rights when America's own record is outrageous
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The Biden administration has allocated up to $3 million in funding for human rights projects that can have "immediate impact leading to long-term sustainable re...
With events designed to create spaces for faculty and students to grow and learn, the Department of Social Sciences presented the Oxford Consortium for Human Ri...
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh made the comment in response to the US State Department's annual reports on human rights practices released...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that by subjecting a man to prolonged compulsory psychiatric treatment, Croatia violated his right t...
'Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra' shows the importance of cultural identity.Panelists Scott Smith, Chloe Wright and Lisa Morgan discuss themes of intergenera...
The head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says civilian casualties in the war are high and dangerous conditions in the country have made it ...
The overhaul of the Human Rights Act has been slammed as 'racist' over a plan to deprive those targeted by stop and search and immigration laws of protection.Th...
Riyadh: The Joint Incident Assessment Team (JIAT) in Yemen said it investigated allegations of human rights abuses against the Saudi-led coalition waging war i...
Republican Gov. Cox had pledged to veto the bill – which was hastily pushed through the Senate and heavily amended on the last night of Utah's legislat...
Ahead of the fifth and possibly final hearing in the trial of human rights defender Osman Kavala and seven other defendants on 21 March, Amnesty Inter...
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WASHINGTON- Today, the Human Rights Campaign PAC (HRC PAC) announced its support for Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak for another term. HRC PAC is commit...
Human rights campaigners say they are "shocked" by a Western Australian government suggestion that hats and hydrolytes could negate the need for air conditionin...
Kazakhstan has been added to a watch list of countries that have seen a rapid decline in civil liberties. After the January protests, the government continu...
Businesses, advocacy groups and athletes oppose anti-trans legislation
More than 150 major American companies have stood up and spoken out in oppositio...
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Here is the text of the video message of the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, for the Conference on Centra...
The Secretary General of the Civil Society Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia, Adama Dempster, said those who defend human rights need laws and policies ...
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be hotly debated at the five-week session of the UN Human Rights Council which begins on Monday.
Heads of state a...
Human rights activists in Ukraine speak to Human Rights First about the immediate impact on them of the Russian invasion and what they want from the United Stat...
Trans rights are human rights and it's the #1 reason this film critic isn't attending or covering this year's SXSW Film Festival.
Transgender rights. Right...
I15 years have passed since the establishment of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the independent body charged with protecting and promoting equality a...
Charges of psychological torture of Julian Assange have not been dealt with, without any legal basis to leave the WikiLeaks founder locked up in solitary confin...
Here are two things that are true about me: I've been a lifelong supporter of human rights; I am not the captain of the Los Angeles Lakers, the most popular ba...
New Delhi: More than 50 press freedom organizations, human rights organizations and publications wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday ...
As Thunder Bay Police Service faces allegations of toxic workplace culture, Northwestern Ontario Police Force Oversight Board faces increased scrutiny amid call...
Taipei, Taiwan - Airbnb's "community" section reads like a who's who of progressive causes in the United States.
The short-term rental giant has donated to Blac...
Myanmar, led by the military junta, plans to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that will join the kyat as legal tender.
The oppressive ruling milita...
She also researches business and human rights, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility for human rights and modern slavery. The United Nations goal ...
The former appellate judge who led a government-commissioned review of the Human Rights Act told MPs he did not consider the government's consultation on the 19...
human rights councilForty-sixth sessionFebruary 28–April 1, 2022Agenda items 2 and 7Annual Report of the United Nations High Commissionerfor Human Rights...
HILDEN, Germany & GERMANTOWN, Maryland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QIAGEN NV (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its commitment to w...
NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday (local time) that the Taliban must respect human rights for the sake of international recognition an...
The concept of human rights in IslamIn order for us to do justice to the subject of Islamophobia, it is imperative that we understand what fear entails. Fear i...
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For some time now, the voice of singer Kyu Sakamoto singing “Good Timin'” has been ringing in my head. I first heard about the song 30 years ago ...
Conditions for the media in Vietnam have rarely been so bad, according to media analysts, with the country jailed more than a dozen journalists in the past 12 ...
Shaath's detention came amid an ongoing crackdown on political dissent under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.Egyptian authorities released Egyptian-Pale...
Q REPORTS - If there is a queen of climate action, it is Christiana Figueres. Best known as one of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the 65-year-o...
Tesla has opened a new showroom in the capital of Xinjiang, a region at the heart of a campaign of repression and assimilation waged for years by the Chinese au...
The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. The room is the meeting place of the United Nations Human R...
LAHORE: The National Human Rights Commission (NCHR), in collaboration with the EU-funded Huqooq-e-Pakistan (HeP) project, organized a civil society consult...
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Children's rights, which for the first time identify children as individual subjects independent of internati...
AMHERST - Thirteen people gathered around the Merry Maple tree in downtown Amherst to read the Bill of Human Rights last Friday night - the city's annual celeb...
Sharjah24 - WAM: President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued a decision regarding the formation of the Board of Directors of the Natio...
GENEVA (AP) - UEFA has set itself the goal of ending racism in European football by 2030 as part of a human rights and environmental strategy that has seen a di...
The Independent National Human Rights Commission (INCHR) in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and i...
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SOUTHERN Defenders, a group of civil society organizations from across the southern African region, called for the protection of human r...
By Rachel VIckCriminal justice reform advocates gathered in all five boroughs to condemn the prison system on Friday, bringing the call to action to Queens Crim...
BOSTON, December 9, 2021 / PRNewswire / - In response to the increase in COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights joined the...
Jefferson city - The Missouri Commission on Human Rights (MCHR) will once again host the Missouri Conference on Human Rights. This free public event celebrati...
(The Hague) - Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should use their annual meeting to strengthen their commitments to justice by th...
On December 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reached half of his six-year term. Since his election in 2018, López Obrador has not only failed t...
We are publishing an independent human rights impact study we commissioned on the role of our technologies in the Philippines.
This assessment found that M...
A study by the International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law, or IHRLC, and the Gulf Center for Human Rights identified a growing trend in...
Omicron and other new variants highlight urgent need for action
GENEVA (November 29, 2021) - UN human rights experts * today urged states to act decisiv...
The Sunday Express learned that the Prime Minister held a summit with members of the influential Common Sense Group in Downing Street on Wednesday, as fury over...
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The UK is concerned about human rights violations in Zimbabwe, which include the targeting of prominent opposition and civil society l...
Two candidates vying for the next president of Interpol have faced widespread opposition from human rights activists.Concerns focused on Major General Ahmed Nas...
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Just weeks before COP26, the High Court ruled on a landmark case, clarifying important legal principles a...
Ma Chun-man sentenced to more than five years in prison for chanting independence slogans during demonstrations.A Hong Kong man who often wore a “Captain Americ...
HELENA - A state hearing officer dismissed a human rights complaint from former Corrections employee Adrianne Cotton, who said her high-level post was cut in 20...
Doha: The Accreditation Subcommittee (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) has renewed its A-status accreditation from th...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on China to immediately and unconditionally release activist Zhang Zhan, who was arrested early last year for re...
Independent UN expert Mary Lawlor warned on Wednesday that human rights defenders in Afghanistan face a "climate of fear", threats and growing discouragement. ...
The United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in North Korea, Thomas Ohea Quintana, reiterated the need to reassess and ease sanctions against North Ko...
Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) wrote to heads of the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the European Union on ...
The Supreme Court of Canada has said that a labor arbitrator - not a human rights arbitrator - should consider a complaint from a unionized Manitoba nursing aid...