US senators call for 5-year extension of North Korean human rights law
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...
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Leading UN body on indigenous peoples’ rights makes first flight to Australia for human rights investigation
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...
Hong Kong: Prominent democracy advocates arrested
(New York) – Hong Kong police should drop baseless criminal investigations against five prominent democracy advocates, Human Rights Watch said t...
‘Catastrophic’ consequences if human rights law scrapped, warn over 50 groups | human rights law
Tearing up the Human Rights Act would have 'disastrous consequences', including removing obligations to properly address violence against women and girls and de...
Human Rights Violations Quick Review of Cambodian Microloans
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 terms of all human rights commissioners expire
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...
Rights groups call on Romania to reject ‘LGBTQ+ propaganda’ law
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 Human Rights Council handled record complaints last year
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...
Tibetans in exile welcome UN human rights chief’s visit to China in May
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...
Proposed new law to protect journalists and human rights defenders from abusive prosecution
The European Commission has proposed a new law and other measures to improve the protection of journalists and human ri...
Live updates: Russia to expel German consulate staff in tit-for-tat move
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India not obligated to respond to US accusation of human rights abuses
How else to explain the Biden administration's penchant for lecturing other countries on human rights when America's own record is outrageous
Even w...
US allocates $3 million to projects that can improve human rights in North Korea
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...
Students participate in human rights workshop — Sonoma State Star
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...
Turkey’s compulsory religion classes violate human rights, court finds
17/04/2022 Turkey (International Christian Concern) - Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled ...
Iran rejects US human rights report Politics News
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh made the comment in response to the US State Department's annual reports on human rights practices released...
ECHR rules Croatia violated human rights through prolonged compulsory psychiatric treatment – JURIST
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...
EU monitors human rights violations in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan
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ACT Human Rights Film Festival Ends With Powerful Message – The Rocky Mountain Collegian
'Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra' shows the importance of cultural identity.Panelists Scott Smith, Chloe Wright and Lisa Morgan discuss themes of intergenera...
‘Very high levels’ of civilian casualties in Ukraine, says UN human rights monitor
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 ...
“Racist” revision of human rights law to deprive protection of those targeted by stops and searches
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...
Saudi-led coalition refutes allegations of human rights abuses in Yemen
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...
Act now on the rights of older people
This month, older people around the world united at a global rally organized by the World Alliance for the Rights of Older Persons, a group of 3...
Sri Lanka’s Changes to Security Abuse Act
The Sri Lankan government tried to dodge mounting international pressure to end abuses under its infamous Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) by r...
European Court of Human Rights dismisses claims against Georgia over 2008 war as inadmissible
The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible 370 individual complaints brought against Georgia by residents of the Russian-occupie...
BREAKING: Human Rights Campaign praises Republican Gov. Spencer Cox for vetoing ban on trans sports
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...
Turkey. Osman Kavala and his co-defendants must be acquitted of all charges
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...
The High Commissioner provides an update on Venezuela to the Human Rights Council, 17 March 2022 – Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
DELIVERED BYMichelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsAT49th session of the Human Rights CouncilLOCATIONGeneva
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Human rights campaign endorses re-election of Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak
WASHINGTON- Today, the Human Rights Campaign PAC (HRC PAC) announced its support for Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak for another term. HRC PAC is commit...
Hats and hydrolytes won’t solve human rights issues at Roebourne prison in WA, say advocates
Human rights campaigners say they are "shocked" by a Western Australian government suggestion that hats and hydrolytes could negate the need for air conditionin...
The Human Rights Council is back
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Kazakhstan added to human rights watch list following ‘Bloody January’ events – OpEd – Eurasia Review
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...
Human rights campaign slams Wisconsin lawmakers for passing legislation attacking transgender students
Businesses, advocacy groups and athletes oppose anti-trans legislation
More than 150 major American companies have stood up and spoken out in oppositio...
Hong Kong: Covid-19 threatens detained democracy leaders
(Hong Kong) – Hong Kong authorities should release the hundreds of arbitrarily detained pro-democracy leaders and activists who are now at heigh...
We cannot fight terrorism, security challenges without action on development, human rights for all, Secretary-General tells Central Asia Conference – World
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Travelers still live in ‘deplorable’ conditions, says human rights body
There has been "no major improvement" in the "deplorable" living conditions of Travelers in the past three years, warns a h...
“Liberia’s human rights defenders need protection laws and policy”
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 ...
Russian invasion of Ukraine tops UN Human Rights Council agenda
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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 call for rapid response
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 – No SXSW 2022
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...
Canada: Let seriously ill Canadians leave northeast Syria
Canada effectively prevents a Canadian woman and a young Canadian child detained in northeast Syria from returning home to receive life-saving m...
EHRC is here to support the rights of all – no matter who says otherwise | Kishwer Falkner
I15 years have passed since the establishment of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the independent body charged with protecting and promoting equality a...
No legal basis to leave Assange in a high-security prison – human rights expert
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...
The only thing stopping me from being captain of the Los Angeles Lakers is my courageous support for human rights
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...
58 press freedom and human rights organizations write to J&K LG calling for the release of journalist Fahad Shah
New Delhi: More than 50 press freedom organizations, human rights organizations and publications wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday ...
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Thunder Bay, Ont., police commission under scrutiny over how it handled human rights complaints
As Thunder Bay Police Service faces allegations of toxic workplace culture, Northwestern Ontario Police Force Oversight Board faces increased scrutiny amid call...
In Beijing 2022, the “awakened capital” in a delicate human rights situation | Labor rights news
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...
Human Rights Commission seeks public input ahead of March 24 meeting
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Myanmar’s planned CBDC raises human rights concerns
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...
24 hours with… human rights lawyer Justine Nolan | News | Eco-Enterprise
She also researches business and human rights, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility for human rights and modern slavery. The United Nations goal ...
Consultation on human rights law ‘not a response to my report’ – Gross | News
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 in the occupied Syrian Golan – Report of the Secretary-General (A/HRC/49/84) [EN/AR] – Syrian Arab Republic
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The prejudices of the participants in the American meeting on human rights in India are well known: MEA: The Tribune India
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QIAGEN’s Commitment to LGBTQ+ and Gender Equality Recognized by Human Rights Campaign and Bloomberg Indexes
HILDEN, Germany & GERMANTOWN, Maryland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QIAGEN NV (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its commitment to w...
Government seminar on agriculture based on ethnic cleansing, war crimes and human rights abuses
Monday, January 24, 2022, 9:36 p.m.Press Release: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA has written to Ag...
Taliban must respect human rights for the sake of international recognition: UN chief
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 Islam | By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai
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...
Director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights speaks at the annual NAACP MLK Day celebration
The NAACP of Chapel Hill-Carrboro celebrated Martin Luther ...
Andy Murray has turned down offers of up to £1.5m to play in Saudi Arabia due to human rights concerns
Andy Murray has turned down offers of up to £1.5million to play in Saudi Arabia over human rights concerns as the tennis star's rep insists he won'...
When condemning China’s human rights abuses, the time is always right
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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 ...
West distracted by pandemic, Vietnam steps up crackdown
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 ...
Beijing charges Chinese activists for discussing ‘human rights’ at meeting
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Egypt releases activist Ramy Shaath after abandoning his nationality | Human rights news
Shaath's detention came amid an ongoing crackdown on political dissent under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.Egyptian authorities released Egyptian-Pale...
“If we fail on climate, we fail on human rights, education and health”: Christiana Figueres
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 Slammed for Opening Exhibition Hall in Xinjiang Despite Human Rights Violations | Xinjiang
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...
New Year’s Resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council
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...
Joint efforts to promote human rights highlighted
LAHORE: The National Human Rights Commission (NCHR), in collaboration with the EU-funded Huqooq-e-Pakistan (HeP) project, organized a civil society consult...
Egyptian court sentences three activists amid US pressure on human rights
12/28/2021 Egypt (International Christian Concern) - Last week an Egyptian court sentenced thr...
UN and PH endorse roadmap to accelerate implementation of joint human rights agenda
The Joint Philippines-United Nations (UN) Human Rights Program took its first major milestone today at the Stee...
DR Congo: protesters shot dead and injured in Goma
(Nairobi) - Police shot at protesters in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on December 20, 2021, killing three people including a 6-...
Human rights of unaccompanied migrant children: focus on detention – world
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Children's rights, which for the first time identify children as individual subjects independent of internati...
Residents read and share ideas about human rights in Amherst
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...
President issues decisions on National Human Rights Institution
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...
UEFA human rights, environmental strategy takes on challenges
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...
North Korea: an abusive regime 10 years after Kim Jong Il
(Seoul) - The 10th anniversary of the death of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il should draw worldwide attention to the brutal regime of ...
Liberia: NCHR and partners mark International Human Rights Day
The Independent National Human Rights Commission (INCHR) in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and i...
“Human rights are the key to economic prosperity”
BY MOSE MATENGA
SOUTHERN Defenders, a group of civil society organizations from across the southern African region, called for the protection of human r...
Human Rights Day of Action heads to Queens Court – Queens Daily Eagle
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...
Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Joins Project N95 and Boston University to Distribute 20,000 Masks to Massachusetts Community Groups Amid Rising Cases of COVID-19
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...
Missouri 2021 Human Rights Conference Set to Celebrate International Human Rights Day with Speakers and Awards
Jefferson city - The Missouri Commission on Human Rights (MCHR) will once again host the Missouri Conference on Human Rights. This free public event celebrati...
Annual meeting of the International Criminal Court
(The Hague) - Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should use their annual meeting to strengthen their commitments to justice by th...
Op-Ed: US Shouldn’t Ignore Current Mexico Human Rights Catastrophe
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...
An independent assessment of Meta’s human rights work in the Philippines
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...
Campus study shows free speech violations in Gulf countries
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...
States must prioritize health and equality over profits and hoarding of vaccines, UN experts say – World
Omicron and other new variants highlight urgent need for action
GENEVA (November 29, 2021) - UN human rights experts * today urged states to act decisiv...
Boris Johnson plans to scrap human rights law “Reform is needed” | Politics | New
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...
UK sounds the alarm over human rights violations in Zimbabwe
By KITSEPILE NYATHI
The UK is concerned about human rights violations in Zimbabwe, which include the targeting of prominent opposition and civil society l...
Human rights groups sound the alarm on Interpol election
Two candidates vying for the next president of Interpol have faced widespread opposition from human rights activists.Concerns focused on Major General Ahmed Nas...
Taiwan to launch human rights fund with ill-gotten KMT assets | Taiwan News
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - The government of Taiwan has reportedly approved the creation of a human rights fund to help victims of political persec...
Vatican warns against violations of seafarers’ human rights
Vatican City - World leaders and international organizations must do more to protect the thousands of men and women in the fishing industry...
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Denmark to carry kits highlighting human rights issues in Qatar
Soccer Football - World Cup - UEFA Qualifying - Group F - Scotland v Denmark - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain - November 15, 2021 Danish players...
Landmark decision on pollution and human rights
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY R (MATTHEW RICHARDS) V EWHC 2501
Just weeks before COP26, the High Court ruled on a landmark case, clarifying important legal principles a...
Hong Kong ‘Captain America’ Protester Sentenced for Slogans | Human rights news
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...
Former state prison official loses human rights reprisal complaint
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...
GANHRI renews the accreditation of the National Human Rights Committee to “A status”
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 calls for immediate release of Chinese journalist who covered COVID
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...
Human rights defenders face a “climate of fear”, says UN expert
Independent UN expert Mary Lawlor warned on Wednesday that human rights defenders in Afghanistan face a "climate of fear", threats and growing discouragement. ...
Letter to the Government of Canada on the Afghanistan Crisis
November 1, 2021
The Right Honorable Justin TrudeauPrime Minister of Canada
The Honorable Sean FraserMinister of Immigration, Refugees and Cit...
Erdan tears up HRC report to UN General Assembly
To illustrate his contempt for the UN's bias against Israel, UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan dramatically tears up a UN Human Rights Council report durin...
The Court of Protection and Criminal Law
October 30, 2021 by Anogika Souresh
Re C EWCA Civ 1527
This is an appeal from the judgment of Justice Hayden in Re C EWCO 25.
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Human rights group condemns deportation of Burmese refugees from Malaysia to Myanmar
10/28/2021 Burma (International Christian Concern) - The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) issued a...
The results of Bolsonaro’s disastrous response to Covid-19
A Brazilian Senate committee yesterday approved a 1,100-page report that exposes what happens when a country's president adopts policies with to...
Jamestown Arts Center, host of the Human Rights Film Festival program
Photo: North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival ProgramFARGO, ND (NewsDakota.com) - The 2021 North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival and Summit is ...
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights: Fewer sanctions for North Korean residents: The DONG-A ILBO
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...
VHP writes to UN Human Rights Commission and EU to “save” Hindus in Bangladesh
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 ...
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Human Rights Arbitrator Cannot Decide Workplace Discrimination Complaint, Supreme Court Says
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...