'Football is important, but so are human rights' … Several UN Security Council members have cited the UN Human Rights Council's findings in condemning … Read more: Updates: Israel making Gaza City into 'lifeless wasteland'; attacks Lebanon – Al JazeeraContinue Reading
The decree also outlaws the teaching of 18 subjects, including human rights and sexual harassment. Read more: Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities – BBC NewsContinue Reading
MADRID, September 18, 2025 (WAFA) – The Spanish Public Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday that Madrid will investigate human rights … Read more: Spain's Prosecutor's Office says human rights violations in Gaza will be investigated – WAFAContinue Reading
Black Feminist Fund co-founder Hakima Abass discusses how philanthropic groups can fight global attack on human rights. Read more: How to stop anti-rights actors? Fund Black feminists – openDemocracyContinue Reading
Alex Neve is an international human rights lawyer and professor. He will deliver the 2025 CBC Massey Lectures and is the author of Universal: Renewing … Read more: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights should not be written off as a failureContinue Reading
Argentina has renounced its candidacy for UN Human Rights Council, continuing its retreat on human and democratic rights under President Javier … Read more: Argentina renounces candidacy for UN Human Rights Council, continues backslide on …Continue Reading
Gender, Equity and Human Rights. ger_WEB_PIC. Situation Updates: The status of Afghan women remains one of the lowest in the world: … Read more: Gender, Equity and Human Rights – WHO EMROContinue Reading
During the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Guatemalan youth activist Nelly Monzón shared how young people are … Read more: “Young people are no longer silenced voices” | OHCHRContinue Reading
In April 2025, Charlotte Tobierre, whose father, Thomas, is a Windrush generation member, shared with Human Rights Watch a copy of a decision by the … Read more: UK: Ombudsman Finds Flaws in Windrush Compensation Scheme | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading
The recently released U.S. Department of State Human Rights Reports showed reduced coverage of key issues and indications of bias in reporting on. Read more: The recently released U.S. Department of State Human Rights Reports showed … – FacebookContinue Reading
WOLA's 2025 Human Rights Awards Month. Democracy is under serious threat across the Americas. From systematic repression in El Salvador to … Read more: WOLA's 2025 Human Rights Awards Month – Washington Office on Latin America | WOLAContinue Reading
The United States has refused to participate in the UN's human rights review process, undermining global accountability and evading international … Read more: Unprecedented: Trump has pulled the US out of its UN human rights review – The HillContinue Reading
… rights online, Human Rights Watch said today. The law, called the ECA Digital after its Portuguese initials, is intended to update the country's … Read more: Brazil Passes Landmark Law to Protect Children Online – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading
ISHR analysis of revised 2026 budget proposal for UN80 reform points to disproportionate cuts to chronically-underfunded human rights pillar. Read more: UN80 Initiative: proposed budget cuts disproportionately hit the human rights pillar | ISHRContinue Reading
… human rights” anywhere in the world. These visa restrictions are in some ways more limited in scope and impact than the Global Magnitsky sanctions … Read more: U.S. VISA SANCTIONS UNDER SECTION 7031(C) – Human Rights FirstContinue Reading