This month's Human Rights 75 spotlight focuses on the importance of creating a human rights economy to reduce economic and other inequalities, … Read more: Building economies that place people's human rights at its center | OHCHRContinue Reading
Front Line Defenders is deeply concerned about the continued imprisonment of human rights defender Naji Fateel and the denial of urgent medical … Read more: Bahrain: UN Working Group calls for the release of Bahraini human rights defender Naji FateelContinue Reading
North Korea said on March 19 as this year's resolution was being debated that human rights violations are “non-existent” in the country. VOA Korean … Read more: Seoul Prioritizes Pyongyang's Human Rights Abuses Amid Growing Nuclear TensionsContinue Reading
Pipeline poses direct threats to the human rights of frontline Indigenous communities and the environment OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY … Read more: Tribal and First Nations rebuke Canada's support of Line 5 pipeline to U.N. Human Rights CouncilContinue Reading
ENCIRCLED by hunger, poverty, disease and war, millions of people are also witnessing their fundamental human rights coming under increasing … Read more: Human rights under attack worldwide – Punch NewspapersContinue Reading
Today, corporate accountability experts sent a 30-page submission to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of its April 2023 Universal Periodic Review … Read more: Canadian Diplomats Prioritize Mining at the Expense of Human Rights, Legal Experts Tell the UNContinue Reading
Human Rights Tribunal decision to allow a discrimination complaint against a Salmon Arm employer to proceed to a hearing. In their March 17, 2023 … Read more: Human rights complaint involving Salmon Arm Buckerfield's may proceed to hearingContinue Reading
Palestinians care deeply about the human rights of other nations. They ought to, because they have experienced, firsthand, what it means to be … Read more: The Price of Solidarity: Palestine, Indonesia and the 'Human Rights' DilemmaContinue Reading
The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to address the root causes of systemic family visa delays and finally end the … Read more: Sweeping reforms needed to address delays in family reunion – Human Rights Law CentreContinue Reading
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch interviewed 34 people and, where available, reviewed video footage regarding 13 cases of violence … Read more: Turkey: Police and Gendarmerie Abuses in Earthquake Zone | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading
These short TED-Talk-style presentations will cover personal experiences working with ESG, DEI, EU regulation, human rights in different countries, … Read more: HuB Ted Talks: Human Rights and Business – Harvard Law SchoolContinue Reading
Thousands of Israelis are protesting against efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government to overhaul the country's … Read more: Human Rights Report On Israel's Apartheid Policies Refuses To Go Away – OpEdContinue Reading
In the face of the deflection by Israelis, falsely calling the Amnesty report “antisemitic,” 12 Israeli human rights organizations have affirmed … Read more: Human rights report on Israel's apartheid policies refuses to go away | Arab NewsContinue Reading
It is the latest in a series of steps taken that have eroded the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls – including a ban on girls attending … Read more: Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on AfghanistanContinue Reading
The 52nd session of the Human Rights Council took place in Geneva from 27 February to 4 April 2023. The EU successfully presented five resolutions … Read more: Human Rights Council adopts 43 resolutions, five of them led by the European UnionContinue Reading