In addition, the department also organizes educational training for both students and employees on human rights and sexual and gender-based violence. Read more: The Office of Human Rights and Equity – The ArgusContinue Reading
Human rights advocates have condemned the decision to allow Saudi Arabia's tourism authority to sponsor the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia … Read more: Saudi Arabia tourism body's sponsorship of 2023 Women's World Cup condemned by …Continue Reading
Community First Development announced the recipient of the 2022 Bill Armstrong AO Human Rights Award is Dr Fiona Crockford. Read more: Dr Crockford receives Human Rights award – Loop PNGContinue Reading
On 26 January 2023, woman environmental human rights defender Syeda Rizwana Hasan and her team were attacked when their vehicles were pelted with … Read more: Environmental lawyer and woman human rights defender Syeda Rizwana Hasan and team …Continue Reading
A human rights group has called for Ukraine to investigate its military's apparent use of thousands of rocket-fired anti-personnel landmines in a … Read more: Human rights group calls for investigation into Ukraine's use of mines banned in treatyContinue Reading
OPINION: We must improve sexual and reproductive health and rights in Brazil, says the IPPF's regional director. Read more: Now Bolsonaro is gone, human rights must be top of Brazil's agenda – openDemocracyContinue Reading
Human Rights Watch suggests that Ukraine scattered so-called petal mines in and around the city of Izium. Petal mines are prohibited under the … Read more: Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine – NPRContinue Reading
Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 09:21 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Feb 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka's human rights record will be examined by the UN … Read more: Sri Lanka's human rights record to be examined by Universal Periodic Review for the 4th timeContinue Reading
ASU awards Louise Arbour for her commitment to the rule of law, human rights. Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Arbour had the honor … Read more: O'Connor Justice Prize ceremony honors UN human rights commissioner | ASU NewsContinue Reading
India needs to legalize same-sex marriage. This fight has been going on for far too long and even if the court legalizes it, it won't end there. Read more: Commentary: India must secure LGBTQ+ community's human rights | The IthacanContinue Reading
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has announced new measures aimed at tackling human rights violations in Myanmar and Iran. Read more: Australia to implement human rights sanctions on Iran and MyanmarContinue Reading
The Australian Government is imposing targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on individuals responsible for egregious human rights abuses in … Read more: Targeted sanctions in response to human rights violations in Myanmar and IranContinue Reading
Over the past fifteen years, movements to extend legal rights to different kinds of non-human entities have achieved notable victories. In particular, … Read more: The flawed case against more-than-human rights – OpenGlobalRightsContinue Reading
Category: Human Rights. Khaing Zar Aung knows all too well what it means to protest when the stakes are high. The President of Industrial Workers' … Read more: Myanmar human rights abuses can be stopped – here's how – Australian UnionsContinue Reading
A human rights lawyer has prompted outrage after accusing Number 10 of using a 'racial trope' to defend itself over a UN report that called … Read more: Outrage as UN human rights lawyer accuses Downing Street of 'racial trope' over race reportContinue Reading