The adoption by the Human Rights Council is an important milestone in the process to create a safer environment for journalists faced with many … Read more: UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Safety of Journalists welcomes the Windhoek+30 …Continue Reading
Chinese envoy on Thursday called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to conduct an investigation and seek … Read more: Chinese envoy calls on OHCHR to investigate US infringement on human rightsContinue Reading
Last week's narrow vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council concerning China's rights violations highlighted the growing number of … Read more: Global Scrutiny of China Abuses Within Reach – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading
“Designating regimes as inadmissible under IRPA is a tool employed very rarely because it's reserved for the most egregious human rights violations … Read more: Canada to designate Iranian regime as serial human rights violator: ministers – Global NewsContinue Reading
The National Secretary, Committee for Defence of Human Rights, Yinka Folarin, served as a member on many panels of enquiry in Ogun State, … Read more: Human rights violations worst under Buhari's regime — CDHR scribe, FolarinContinue Reading
Ukrainian entries dominated Thursday's shortlist to win to European Union's top human rights prize. The Christian Democrat, Socialist and Liberal … Read more: Ukraine dominates shortlist for EU human rights prize – Yahoo NewsContinue Reading
Human rights defenders in China face arrest and lengthy detention for calling out Xi's mistakes. Read more: Xi Jinping Has Critics in China. They Have Paid a Steep Price. – The DiplomatContinue Reading
Because of this mistreatment, the CCPR determined that the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses under the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and … Read more: United Nations Human Rights Committee Declares Tajikistan's Ban on Jehovah's Witnesses …Continue Reading
President Joe Biden's Iran policy enables a human rights abuser while strengthening and emboldening a top adversary of the United States and the … Read more: The Iran protests and the Biden administration's human rights hypocrisy – JNS.orgContinue Reading
On October 11, 193 UN member states cast their secret ballots at the UN General Assembly to select members for the UN's top rights body, the Human … Read more: Venezuela Denied a Seat at the UN Human Rights CouncilContinue Reading
PRNewswire/ — Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced that Michael Polsky, Founder and CEO of Invenergy, has been named a 2022 Ripple of … Read more: ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS NAMES CLEAN ENERGY PIONEER MICHAEL …Continue Reading
A former broadcaster, film maker and secretary of Women Film Makers of Zimbabwe, Josy's active defence of human rights and involvement with Zimbabwe's … Read more: Quakers fight deportation of Zimbabwean Quaker human rights defenderContinue Reading
“Designating regimes as inadmissible under IRPA is a tool employed very rarely because it's reserved for the most egregious human rights … Read more: Canada to designate Iranian regime as serial human rights violator: ministersContinue Reading
A Moroccan human rights official has called on her fellow citizens to vote in favour of the recommendation made by the UN General Assembly Third … Read more: Morocco: human rights official calls for vote to abolish death penalty – Middle East MonitorContinue Reading
The leaks exposed evidence of war crimes, human rights violations and torture. Assange, who is currently held in London's Belmarsh prison, is battling … Read more: MEPs nominate the 'brave people' of Ukraine for Sakharov Prize, the EU's top human rights awardContinue Reading