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...
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...
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...
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....
QUETTA: Government and civil society representatives at a workshop at its closing session discussed a draft human rights policy and finalized recommendations...
The report examines how technological advancements in areas such as facial recognition and AI can be balanced with the protection of human rights. Credit...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 on the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusa...
"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...
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: ...
The Council of Europe / UNHCR HELP course on asylum and human rights was launched during an online seminar bringing together legal professionals from several...
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...
LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - From ancient sculptures to contemporary photographs, objects spanning 5,000 years of Iranian art, culture and design are on displa...
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...
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'...
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...
The United States will extend temporary protection against deportation to Haitian citizens already in the country, the Department of Homeland Security said o...
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...
TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN - In his first major international address to the 2017 United Nations General Assembly, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev pledged syste...
Through Letter to the editor 1h agoShare this article:ShareTweetShareShareShareE-mailShareBy Khotso MolekoJust a few months ago, the coronavirus reduced exa...
Islamabad: Journalists and international experts around the world have called on the international community to unite and act against human rights viol...
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...
The Nordic region of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, recently issued a joint statement expressing...
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...
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 country joined global protests over the weekend to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and demand an end to the Isra...
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)...
Government records show that Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the far-right group Proud Boys, received two federally guaranteed Paycheck Protection Progr...
Allegations of genocide, forced labor or widespread abuse of minorities in various countries fill the airspace daily; governments are paying more and mo...
A settlement has been reached with diamond miner Petra Diamonds over allegations of serious human rights violations at his majority-owned Williamson diamond ...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
Representative imageViral calls urging people to adopt children orphaned by Covid could be rumored but, most certainly, illegal. In an effort to alert people...
The Covid-19 crisis, Supreme Court rulings and ruling coalition tensions may be making headlines in Argentina right now, but outside the country attention ...
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...
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 ...
May 5 (UPI) - Group of Seven Nations foreign ministers on Wednesday criticized Beijing for its human rights abuses while calling on it to participate...
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 ...
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...
Allegations of crimes against humanity found in a recent Harvard Law School report could warrant international action to address the political and hu...
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...
By Philip MorganTimes CorrespondentDr William Felice, professor of popular political science at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, is due to retire on May 23 ...
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....
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...
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...
2021-04-27 The webinar will focus on the basics of Massachusetts anti-discrimination law in employment, housing, public accommodation and other contexts. Th...
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...
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...
WASHINGTON DC - As states across the country continue to advance and enact an unprecedented series of discriminatory and anti-transgender laws aimed...
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 found herself without "any civil or human rights," says a fan in a new BBC documentary. BAFTA-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar visited Los ...
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...
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...
PublicityChina's continued human rights violations are a frequent cause of tension in Sino-US relations. the The United States condemned repeated treatment ...
Refiner Elemetal got more gold from Bolivia than the country produced that year.
According to civil society organization Global Witness, investors in p...
WASHINGTON - As the United States begins to withdraw troops from the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan, national security experts, human rights activists and...
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...
The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, welcomed the March 1 adoption of the Yazidi Survivors Act...
The following is attributable to spokesperson Ned Price:
Promoting the administration's commitment to placing human rights at the heart of US foreign pol...
In December 2018, the independent report of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur on the situation in Chechnya found `` clear evidence of successive purges ag...