Human rights: 10 years later and companies have a new responsibility
06/16/2021
June 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP), but as Des...
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Progress towards elections, guarantee the protection of human rights and uphold the rule of law in Mali
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and my thanks to SRSG El-Ghassim Wane and Ms. Maiga for their views and ideas.
Mr President, first of all, like many of my colleag...
Lawyer and international professor Payam Akhavan wins 2021 Bar Human Rights Award
Donnelly said Akhavan, with his many outstanding acts of service over decades of effort, meets the award's criteria for "dedication to the...
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Suu Kyi trial set to open in Myanmar, junta rejects declaration by UN rights chief
Myanmar State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi attends Invest Myanmar in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on January 28, 2019. REUTERS / Ann Wang / File PhotoThe trial of ousted...
G7 leaders will denounce “human rights violations” – but will their final communiqué even identify China?
Biden and other G7 leaders will call Beijing for "human rights abuses and violations of fundamental freedoms" - but will their final communiqu&A...
Joe Biden’s call for G7 to toughen human rights abuses in China threatens to divide summit
Pressure from Joe Biden to make G7 leaders tougher on human rights abuses in China threatened to divide the world's main democracies at their Cornish summit....
Moving to mainstreaming human rights into governance – Journal
QUETTA: Government and civil society representatives at a workshop at its closing session discussed a draft human rights policy and finalized recommendations...
interesting information from the Australian commission
The report examines how technological advancements in areas such as facial recognition and AI can be balanced with the protection of human rights. Credit...
Representative Ilhan Omar denounces US and Israeli human rights abuses, faces backlash
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Ethiopia: boy publicly executed in Oromia
(Nairobi) - Ethiopian government forces summarily executed a 17-year-old boy in broad daylight in Ethiopia's Oromia region, Human Rights Watch ...
Business and Human Rights – Analyzing the Risks of Modern Slavery in Holding Companies: Practical Considerations for Investors
In May 2021, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published a report presenting a series of tools that investors can use to identify and add...
How to protect human rights in the digital age
Two very critical human rights events have occurred recently. The Supreme Court of India (SC) further warned against any "crackdown" on "freedo...
Human Rights – A Short History – Journal
PARLIAMENT has become so incidental to our politics that we seldom notice minor but significant changes occurring in its sacred halls. It is not only becaus...
Jesus College professor discourages conversations about Uyghur human rights
Nolan suggested that the issues surrounding the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China are "issues that affect all countries that hav...
ND Human Rights Arts Festival will take place | News, Sports, Jobs
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The violation of human rights is not complicated – The Oberlin Review
At around 2 a.m. on May 21, a truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect after 11 days of fighting. The death toll was stark: at least 242 people were ...
Human rights groups urge Ukrainian leaders to change SBU reform bill ahead of passage
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and more than 20 other groups urged Ukraine's parliament to address shortcomings in a bill to reform the country's security servic...
The Tigray conflict: Ethiopia’s humanitarian catastrophe – Harry Sanders
June 3, 2021 by guest contributor
Map of the Tigray conflict, which started in November and continues
This article was written by H...
Military must “scrupulously” respect human rights and release civilian leaders
Alioune Tine, independent human rights expert in Mali, said that contrary to reports, President Bah N'Daw and former Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were not rel...
Piñera from Chile announces special prosecutor’s office to investigate human rights issues during social crisis
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Tu...
Judge Arun Mishra could become the new chairman of the National Human Rights Commission
A high-level recommendation committee has reportedly nominated Justice Arun Mishra, who retired from the Supreme Court last year, to be the new NHRC chairman...
Thirtieth Special Session of the Human Rights Council, UNRWA Statement by Gwyn Lewis – Occupied Palestinian Territory
Thirtieth special session of the Human Rights Council on the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusa...
Biden says he will discuss human rights violations with Putin at meeting next month
"I will meet with President Putin in a few weeks in Geneva, making it clear that we will not - we will not let him abuse these rights," Biden said in a speec...
March for Human Rights meets in Ann Arbor to unite multiple movements
ANN ARBOR, MI - A rally and march organized mostly by students gathered in Ann Arbor to unite several social movements.The event represented five movements: ...
Senior fights human rights commission
Tears filled Cheryl Scott's eyes as she spoke of the abuse suffered by her husband, Kanehsata'kehró: no Winston Nelson, while being treated at S...
Launch of the HELP course on asylum and human rights for a group of EU legal professionals
The Council of Europe / UNHCR HELP course on asylum and human rights was launched during an online seminar bringing together legal professionals from several...
UK surveillance practices violate human rights laws, highest European court ruled
Europe's highest court of human rights has ruled Britain's mass surveillance and intelligence-gathering practices violate human rights laws, in a partial vic...
EU calls on Iran to review conviction of human rights activist
LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - From ancient sculptures to contemporary photographs, objects spanning 5,000 years of Iranian art, culture and design are on displa...
Human Rights Watch statement on attacks on indigenous Munduruku leaders
Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch condemns attacks by groups involved in illegal mining against indigenous Munduruku leaders in Pará state o...
EU policy endangers human rights and migrants’ lives – POLITICO
The lack of human rights protection for migrants along the central Mediterranean route to Europe is partly due to EU policy, a report published Wed...
Members of Congress Cohen address the European Union – United States Parliamentary Consultation on Human Rights
SANTA FE, New Mexico - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Co...
NEW REPORT: Human rights campaign, leading political and health organizations call for inclusive sex education for LGBTQ people
The report, A call to action: LGBTQ youth need inclusive sexuality education, was written and endorsed by Advocates for Youth, Answer, Black & P...
Colombian Defense Minister accused of being “responsible” for human rights violations
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"In our opinion, you are one of the most politically responsible in the systema...
Human rights organization quits Stonewall UK diversity program | Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
The UK human rights watchdog has not renewed its membership in a diversity program run by LGBTQ + group Stonewall, saying it does not offer 'value for money'...
Study finds political decisions during first wave of pandemic threatened basic human right to life of most vulnerable Scots
Bad decisions by politicians during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic threatened the basic human right to life of the most vulnerable Scots, the res...
Turkey’s treatment of Protestant Christians reported to Human Rights Committee
05/23/2021 Turkey (International Christian Concern) - A group of four NGOs submitted a report to the...
United States to Extend Temporary Deportation Protection to Haitians | Human rights news
The United States will extend temporary protection against deportation to Haitian citizens already in the country, the Department of Homeland Security said o...
Recognize Palestinian rights, restrict military aid to Israel
Israel and Hamas have accepted a ceasefire. For the moment. We can only hope that it will still be valid at the time of its publication. Israel and the Pa...
Uzbeks are still waiting for promised human rights reforms | Voice of America
TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN - In his first major international address to the 2017 United Nations General Assembly, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev pledged syste...
Human rights are not always guaranteed during a pandemic
Through Letter to the editor 1h agoShare this article:ShareTweetShareShareShareE-mailShareBy Khotso MolekoJust a few months ago, the coronavirus reduced exa...
World urged to take action against human rights abuses in Palestine
Islamabad: Journalists and international experts around the world have called on the international community to unite and act against human rights viol...
Norway Wealth Fund excludes Israeli companies for ‘human rights violations’
ANKARA In the second week of the latest Israeli attacks on Palestinians, Norway's $ 1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund - the wor...
Fargo human rights groups push for hate crimes ordinance
"There is a federal law. There is no state law and there is no municipal law that would make a hate crime a criminal offense."
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Forced sterilization cases in Peru: “They could get away with it” | Human rights news
Lima, Peru - Maria Elena Carbajal still vividly remembers the doctor's frightening response when, from her hospital bed, she repeatedly asked to see her newb...
Statement by Nordic and Baltic countries concerned about human rights violations of Uyghurs in China
The Nordic region of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, recently issued a joint statement expressing...
Human Rights Campaign Celebrates Passage of Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Law in US House of Representatives
The Human Rights Campaign, with a broad coalition of civil rights organizations, has been pushing for the passage of the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE law fo...
Israel’s ‘shocking disregard’ for civilians may be war crime
Israel shelled residential homes in Gaza without warning, killing civilians, Amnesty Internationa...
The urgent need for a new agenda for change in international human rights law
International law faces a crisis unlike any it has faced in the post-war world. Its institutions do not have the kind of public legitimacy that their fo...
Thousands of people across the United States join global protests in solidarity with Palestine
Thousands of people across the country joined global protests over the weekend to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and demand an end to the Isra...
Why the West must challenge Iran on human rights
The eyes of the world have again turned to Iran as the prospect of renegotiating the Nuclear agreement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)...
Israeli human rights group says state commits war crimes in Gaza
JERUSALEMAn Israeli human rights group accused Israel of committing "war crimes" in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and demanded that...
Scientology Sponsored Human Rights Initiative: A Message on International Day of Families
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The right to marriage and the family: article 16 of the Universal Declaration of...
Nordic and Baltic countries express concern over human rights situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China
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Progressive Lawmakers Call on US to Recognize Palestinian Human Rights – As Happened | American News
Government records show that Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the far-right group Proud Boys, received two federally guaranteed Paycheck Protection Progr...
Business and Human Rights: Energy and Extractive Industries in a Changing Landscape of Next Generation Trade Agreements Protecting and Promoting Both Trade and Human Rights | King and Spalding
Allegations of genocide, forced labor or widespread abuse of minorities in various countries fill the airspace daily; governments are paying more and mo...
Human Rights Bahamas lashes out at Bannister, government over slum comments
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Qatar: fears grow for activist for the rights of forcibly missing migrants
Qatari authorities must urgently reveal the whereabouts of Malcolm Bidali, a Kenyan national who has been forcibly missing since Ma...
Equal pay, human rights, etc.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker recently signed Senate Bill 1480 into law, establishing new certification and employer reporting requirements, ma...
Settlement reached with Petra over allegations of human rights violations
A settlement has been reached with diamond miner Petra Diamonds over allegations of serious human rights violations at his majority-owned Williamson diamond ...
Local human rights group slams Johnson’s comments on slum demolition – Eye Witness News
HRB: Nation's position on immigrants is embarrassing on the world stage
"The thin excuse that they are just obeying the laws of the Bahamas is not fooli...
Coup in Myanmar: “No Signs” of an End to Brutal Repression on All Fronts |
"More than 100 days after the coup in Myanmar, the military authorities show no sign of slackening in their brutal crackdown on opponents in an attempt to co...
Youth Justice Council added to Department of Human Rights
The Iowa Department of Human Rights is adding a group to its juvenile justice division, a committee made up entirely of young people.
The Youth Justice Counc...
“ Thief acting like a cop ”
The Chinese Communist Party has said mass shootings, poverty rates and foreign wars are all evidence of the United States' "double weight" in human rights vi...
Control Yuan calls for action for human rights of FOC boat crew members
Taipei, May 10 (CNA) The Control Yuan on Monday called on the Cabinet and several government agencies to address the issue of human rights violations on Taiw...
Mumbai: “Rumors can trap you in human rights violations” | Mumbai News
Representative imageViral calls urging people to adopt children orphaned by Covid could be rumored but, most certainly, illegal. In an effort to alert people...
Buenos Aires Times | Report details alleged human rights violations in Formosa
The Covid-19 crisis, Supreme Court rulings and ruling coalition tensions may be making headlines in Argentina right now, but outside the country attention ...
Winning for secularism but not for human rights
Many liberals hailed Mamata Banerjee's election victo...
UN human rights chief issues warning over attempts to undermine LAC human rights
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State Department’s Human Rights Report Is America’s Best Tool To Tackle Sexual Violence
May 7, 2021 at 7:32 pm
On March 30, the US State Department released its 2020 Human Rights Reports&a...
Antony Blinken targets Russia, China with comments on human rights at UN
During a high-level meeting of the United Nations Security Council with high-level Chinese and Russian diplomats on Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blin...
Business and human rights: the dimension of corruption
EU lawmakers are urged to ensure that, as they move forward on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence plans, they stress the importance for ...
G7 expresses concern over China’s human rights abuses, calls on China to join international system
May 5 (UPI) - Group of Seven Nations foreign ministers on Wednesday criticized Beijing for its human rights abuses while calling on it to participate...
Black man’s ticket booth for jaywalking was racial discrimination: Human Rights Commission – Halifax
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ANALYSIS-Biden set to steer US arms deals towards security and human rights
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - Ninety minutes before President Joe Biden took office on January 20, the United States signed a $ 23 billion deal to sell F-35 ...
Ex-employee sues Ellis hospital over dismissal, alleges human rights violation amid pandemic
SCHENECTADY - A woman who worked at Ellis Hospital for 30 years sued the hospital, saying she was fired for expressing concerns about her safety at the sta...
Haiti could face international action, based on report on impunity, human rights experts say
Allegations of crimes against humanity found in a recent Harvard Law School report could warrant international action to address the political and hu...
Pakistan witnessed substantial human rights violations in 2020: report
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Swiss and Burundian foreign ministers discuss human rights
During his visit to the Swiss capital, Shingiro met senior officials from the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Swiss Agency for Dev...
COVID-19 pandemic highlights human rights neglect and health discrimination against people with disabilities-Living News, Firstpost
Research on COVID-19 and people with disabilities in low-...
Jürgen Habermas rejects UAE award for human rights concerns | News | DW
Prominent German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas on Sunday turned down a United Arab Emirates (UAE) book award over concerns abou...
HRW chairman invests in Israel as he calls it ‘apartheid’
One of the presidents of Human Rights Watch, who recently published a report accusing Israel of apartheid...
Thousands march through Colombia on fourth day of protests against tax plan
Thousands of Colombians took to the streets on Saturday for International Workers' Day marches and protests against a government tax reform proposal, on a fo...
International hypocrisy and human rights according to St. Petersburg popular political science professor
By Philip MorganTimes CorrespondentDr William Felice, professor of popular political science at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, is due to retire on May 23 ...
Ontario Human Rights Commission backs Pride Hamilton in court
Pride Hamilton has won a powerful ally in his human rights court complaint against the city and police over violence at the annual LGBTQ celebration in 2019....
UK students sue government over human rights impact of climate crisis | Climate change
The UK is being sued by three young people who claim their human rights are violated by the government's inability to act decisively in the face of the clima...
“Cancellation” of human rights | Notice
For those who have paid attention, the recent development of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in attempting to “nullify†Israel a...
UAE Sheikh Mohammed under fire ahead of Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission this week received a complaint from a Louisville human rights and student group seeking to bar a Kentucky Derby front-ru...
Are economic sanctions in response to gross human rights violations useful?
Economic sanctions imposed for national security reasons, such as those invoked against Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Russia, have a mixed rec...
Following joint session speech, human rights campaign praises President Biden’s pro-LGBTQ agenda and support for equality law
“The Biden administration has made it clear through its actions that it is allies in the fight for equality and justice for LGBTQ ...
Barnstable County Government: Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Commission announces chairman of Massachusetts attorney general’s office …
2021-04-27 The webinar will focus on the basics of Massachusetts anti-discrimination law in employment, housing, public accommodation and other contexts. Th...
Bangladesh: Rohinyga refugees reportedly tortured
(New York) - Bangladeshi authorities should immediately investigate allegations that security forces arbitrarily beat and detained Rohingya r...
Human rights in times of crisis
On May 4, at the end of World Press Freedom Day, the series of public lectures "Human rights in times of crisis" of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Frib...
All negative comments do not violate the Human Rights Code
Content of the article A Human Rights Tribunal adjudicator ruled that not all negative comments violate the law. Sometimes it's just bad manners. Telling s...
Human Rights Campaign Chairman calls on NCAA to withdraw championship events from states enacting or advancing discriminatory and anti-trans legislation
WASHINGTON DC - As states across the country continue to advance and enact an unprecedented series of discriminatory and anti-transgender laws aimed...
Former Faculty Member and Wife Donate $ 1.2M for Human Rights Program | Nebraska today
Support for human rights education and research programs at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln spearheaded over $ 1.2 million in donations from ...
11 Kerala MPs write to CJI and demand urgent hearing from Siddique Kapp – The New Indian Express
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: 11 UDF deputies led by K Sudhakaran sent a joint letter to the chief justice, NV ...
Iraqi Human Rights Commission says 58 dead in fire in Iraqi hospital COVID-19
DUBAI: As rich countries rush to immunize their populations against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the poorest countries are left behind with limit...
Britney Spears ‘has no human rights because law is open to abuse’, new documentary claims
Britney Spears found herself without "any civil or human rights," says a fan in a new BBC documentary. BAFTA-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar visited Los ...
Iran criticizes EU sanctions; denounces human rights violations | News from the European Union
Tehran, Iran - In a strongly worded letter to the Council of the European Union, Iran officially protested against the blacklist of several persons and entit...
UN human rights experts confused between human rights and saving lives in the fight against Covid-19 in Cambodia
So-called UN human rights experts from Geneva, which is 10,000 km away, urged Cambodia to review its approach to Covid-19 on April 12, citing "tough legal a...
American public supports action against human rights abuses in China – The diplomat
PublicityChina's continued human rights violations are a frequent cause of tension in Sino-US relations. the The United States condemned repeated treatment ...
Gold refiners ‘seemingly ignore’ conflict and human rights red flags
Refiner Elemetal got more gold from Bolivia than the country produced that year.
According to civil society organization Global Witness, investors in p...
https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/node/add/press-release# As the Afghan troop withdrawal begins, the allies should not be left behind
WASHINGTON - As the United States begins to withdraw troops from the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan, national security experts, human rights activists and...
Critics denounce Japan’s asylum reform as a human rights violation
TOKYO (Reuters) - Planned reform of Japan's asylum law that would make it easier to deport failed refugee claimants drew sharp criticism on Thursday from law...
New Iraqi law ‘major step’ to help women victims of ISIL, but more needs to be done |
The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, welcomed the March 1 adoption of the Yazidi Survivors Act...
Statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on the guilty verdict in the George Floyd case
OHCHR“This is a capital verdict. It is also a testament to the courage and perseverance of the family of George Floyd and many others in s...
Secretary Blinken’s meeting with human rights defenders
The following is attributable to spokesperson Ned Price:
Promoting the administration's commitment to placing human rights at the heart of US foreign pol...
Human rights in Myanmar after the military coup
The author is the director of Amnesty International Indonesia, a lecturer at the Indonesian Law College Jentera and the founder ...
Declaration on Serious Human Rights Violations and Abuses against LGBTI People
In December 2018, the independent report of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur on the situation in Chechnya found `` clear evidence of successive purges ag...