France saw mounting human rights challenges in 2024, including a sharp rise in hate crime and controversial surveillance during the Paris Olympic … Read more: Hate crimes, surveillance and social cleansing fuels rights concerns in France – RFIContinue Reading
It further includes meetings with Members of Parliament, officials of the EU institutions and Brussels-based NGOs. The Fellows will also have space … Read more: Sakharov Fellowship programme for human rights defenders from non-EU countriesContinue Reading
Human Rights Watch report released today stating that a government-operated special squad, reminiscent of the disbanded Special Service Unit (SSU) … Read more: Human Rights Watch launches report on abductions – YouTubeContinue Reading
Whether in response to heightened repression in Russia, India, and Venezuela, or catastrophic armed conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, governments … Read more: World Report 2025 – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading
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Authors: Lamtiar N. S. M. Nababan, Larasati Primaputri, Talitha Nurhaliza*. Virginity testing towards women has been seen as something outdated … Read more: Indonesian Women and Virginity: Requestioning Structural Challenges and Human RightsContinue Reading
The governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan should release wrongfully imprisoned activists and journalists and … Read more: Central Asia: Worsening Human Rights RecordsContinue Reading
Successful candidates will go to Europe for a two week intensive training in Brussels and at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice (15-27 June … Read more: Human Rights Defenders in Australia Can Now Apply for a Sakharov Fellowship Programme | EEASContinue Reading
In May, the government tasked the Human Rights Commission with investigating antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism and the experiences of First Nations … Read more: The Human Rights Commission has handed down a report on racism at Australian …Continue Reading
Campaigners have held two exhibitions in Dorchester town centre to raise awareness about human rights abuses in Iran. Iranian Academics in Exile … Read more: Campaigners in Dorchester speak on human rights abuses in Iran – Dorset EchoContinue Reading
A human rights complaint from a transgender woman misgendered by EPS and 911 dispatchers has been dismissed. However, the person who filed the … Read more: 2SLGBTQ+ human rights complaint against Edmonton police dismissed – YouTubeContinue Reading
On 15 January, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk urged western nations to lift sweeping sanctions that have been imposed on Syria … Read more: UN human rights chief urges end of Syria sanctions after talks with HTS leader – The CradleContinue Reading
DAMASCUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Wednesday urged the international community to reconsider … Read more: UN human rights chief calls for concerted efforts to rebuild Syria – XinhuaContinue Reading
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Physicians for Human Rights and our partners are supporting child survivors of sexual violence through the … Read more: [VIDEO] Care in a Safe Place: Child-friendly Spaces for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the DRCContinue Reading
An Alberta human rights tribunal has dismissed a complaint that the Edmonton Police Service was discriminatory in how officers responded to a … Read more: Alberta human rights tribunal dismisses trans woman's discrimination complaint against EPSContinue Reading