Click to expand Image Bangladesh Federation of Worker Solidarity activists hold a rally in Dhaka on May 7, 2023 to mark ten years since the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,130 people. © 2023 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP On July 23, Human Rights Watch filed a writtenContinue Reading
Why is protest part of dialogue? Highlights from Billy Vaughan’s recent talk at the National Justice & Peace Network Conference. Read MoreContinue Reading
In August, the Security Council is expected to hold its monthly meeting on political and humanitarian developments in Syria. Read MoreContinue Reading
For many Romani communities across Europe, the gap between having rights and being able to exercise them is wide. People face discrimination in … Read MoreContinue Reading
Iran Human Rights announced that Mehdi Roshani, a Kurdish protester arrested in connection with the January 6 protests in Malekshahi Cou … Read MoreContinue Reading
… human rights activists from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. … In Kenya, for example, the work of Muslims for Human Rights shows how … Read MoreContinue Reading
In confronting the critical nature of the matter affecting outspoken human rights defenders in Thailand, Elaine Pearson, Asia director at Human Rights … Read MoreContinue Reading
… human rights concerns. The 16th Amendment (discussed in an earlier piece) and the 17th Amendment to the Fundamental Law, adopted in June and July … Read MoreContinue Reading
Prime Minister Najib Razak’s rise to power was characterized by an increased repression of civil society and human rights defenders and a lockdown on … Read MoreContinue Reading
… rights group. Arvin Kheirkhahan was executed at about 4 a.m. on August 1 at Shahrud Prison in Iran’s Semnan Province, the Human Rights Activists … Read MoreContinue Reading
Amnesty International calls global extreme heat pattern a human rights emergency, brought about by corporate greed and political failure. Read MoreContinue Reading
… human rights by undermining human rights protections in law and practice.” It characterised the organisations as forming part of a wider “anti … Read MoreContinue Reading
The era of human rights is over, and dissent is once more forbidden. … civil protest. This is what enabled Starmer’s government to ban … Read MoreContinue Reading
An exhibit about the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic) opened at the Canadian Human Rights Museum on June 26, 2026. Nakba is the term used for the … Read MoreContinue Reading
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israeli military on July 28 to take control of another Palestinian refugee camp in the West … Read MoreContinue Reading