“The joint statement issued at the Human Rights Council today confirms the world's commitment to ensuring justice for the deadly Beirut port explosion … Read more: Lebanon: UN Human Rights Council joint statement urges accountability for Beirut blastContinue Reading
AHRC's Free + Equal endorses the clear calls made by the Human Rights Law Centre and a coalition of over 80 organisations urging the Federal … Read more: Human Rights Law Centre welcomes Commission's push for Human Rights ActContinue Reading
Solutions which bring forward our longstanding experience in difficult settings, and our work as bridge-builders between civil society, human rights … Read more: Global update: High Commissioner outlines concerns in over 40 countries – OHCHRContinue Reading
Julianne Williams (right) says her human rights were breached when she was strip-searched by guards in Canberra's jail. (ABC News). Read more: Canberra woman suing Alexander Maconochie Centre says her human rights were violated … – ABCContinue Reading
He was among the vanguard of Black civil rights activists in Birmingham, fighting for the right to vote during some of the city's ugliest days of … Read more: A Birmingham Civil Rights Reformer, and Newspaper Editor, Lost to HistoryContinue Reading
Based on the information analysed, the Group concluded that serious and systematic human rights violations and abuses of human rights took place in … Read more: Human Rights Council Hears that the People of Myanmar Continue to Suffer Profound … – ReliefWebContinue Reading
The civil-rights complaint will seek a more specific and comprehensive policy and program from Hockey Québec on anti-Black racism and discrimination; … Read more: Teen hockey player files human–rights complaint over racial slur used during gameContinue Reading
… end human rights violations in its western Xinjiang region. … array of recommendations to encourage Beijing to better respect basic rights. Read more: UN-backed panel calls on China to improve basic human rights – Yahoo NewsContinue Reading
A group of 20 prominent human rights lawyers from Iran has published an open letter calling for an independent, joint committee consisting of … Read more: Human Rights Lawyers Call for UN Probe Into Poisonings of Schoolgirls in IranContinue Reading
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Women's rights activists on Monday called for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to condemn El Salvador in a case … Read more: Activists urge human rights court to condemn El Salvador's abortion ban | WTVBContinue Reading
Women's rights activists on Monday called for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to condemn El Salvador in a case brought a decade ago by a … Read more: Activists urge human rights court to condemn El Salvador's abortion ban – ReutersContinue Reading
Rishi Sunak's plan to curb strike action in the U.K. could clash with the European Convention on Human Rights | Pool photo by Liam McBurney via … Read more: Sunak's strikes clampdown at odds with human rights law, committee warns – POLITICOContinue Reading
Virtual activism makes some human rights causes visible but reduces engagement on the street. Read more: The trivialization of human rights | OpenGlobalRightsContinue Reading
More than 60 prominent charities, unions and campaign groups have signed a landmark letter of alarm to the UN about the state of human rights in … Read more: UK human rights being 'eroded', warn dozens of groups in landmark letter – openDemocracyContinue Reading
Two practising human rights lawyers tell the story of 50 cases that help to explain how, partly by individual judicial decisions, Australia has … Read more: Book review: 50 Human Rights Cases that Changed Australia – Law Society JournalContinue Reading