The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Uganda’s crackdown on dissent, which it said was creating a climate of fear in the … Read MoreContinue Reading
They illustrate how digital transformation, scientific innovation, and administrative reform are making human rights more accessible. When … Read MoreContinue Reading
The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has written to Scotland’s Justice Secretary Neil Gray after the publication of a damning report on the … Read MoreContinue Reading
The Council sanctioned seven persons and three entities responsible for serious human rights violations in relation to the operation of scam … Read MoreContinue Reading
GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday denounced the crackdown on dissent in Uganda, alongside a gradual erosion … Read MoreContinue Reading
Click to expand Image Police removing journalists from Toplum TV on March 6, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. © 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images An Azerbaijani court on July 27 sentenced nine journalists, media workers, and civil society activists to between 12 and 15 years in prison. It is the harshest verdictContinue Reading
Advocates have urged the Crisafulli government to reconsider controversial legislation that would send youth offenders to boot camps, warning that … Read MoreContinue Reading
Why did China support the re-election of Volker Turk as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights? Read MoreContinue Reading
… rights, civil and political rights, environmental protection, the rights of vulnerable groups, human rights education and international cooperation. Read MoreContinue Reading
Click to expand Image Makeshift shelters for communities displaced from Nagero County to Bazia, Wau County, South Sudan, November 18, 2025. © 2025 Joe Falzetta South Sudan’s army, opposition forces, and their respective allied militias abused residents and caused much of the population to flee during fighting in 2025 inContinue Reading
Neither government commented on allegations of human rights violations involving British soldiers during previous training exercises. Kenya’s … Read MoreContinue Reading
The surprise move during a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine followed US opposition to giving UN human rights chief Volker Turk another four-year … Read MoreContinue Reading
Sourcing materials responsibly requires both environmental and human rights considerations, including working conditions; energy use; community, water … Read MoreContinue Reading
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the family were travelling in a Samand car on the evening of 26 July when Ministry of … Read MoreContinue Reading
… human rights crisis in the country. At the weekend, Donald Trump … “Death sentences issued by the revolutionary courts are a violation of human rights … Read MoreContinue Reading