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On Friday, the US co-hosted an informal meeting highlighting the human rights violations in North Korea at the UNSC. Read more: North Korea criticizes UN, US for raising Pyongyang's human rights issue, missile … – ANI NewsContinue Reading

Twenty-two civil activists, bloggers, journalists, and politicians who disagreed with the government over a border issue and are currently in … Read more: Kyrgyzstan: Free the 22 'Kempir-Abad' Protest Detainees | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

Watch El Salvador mega-prison brings in new inmates, critics raise human rights concerns Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca. Read more: El Salvador mega-prison brings in new inmates, critics raise human rights concernsContinue Reading

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), not the State Human Rights Commission, would be the appropriate statutory panel to deal with human … Read more: NHRC, not J&K body, to deal with human rights cases: J&K Administration to Supreme CourtContinue Reading

Amendments to the Youth Justice Act 1992 include overriding the state's Human Rights Act by making breach of bail an offence for children. Read more: Human rights advocates sound alarm as Queensland passes "dangerous" youth justice changesContinue Reading

Some of Monday's papers lead on judges at the European Court of Human Rights who reportedly are close to backing down over blocking flights … Read more: Newspaper headlines: Judges 'to back down' on Rwanda and Boris' dossier – BBC NewsContinue Reading

Photo by: Brock Human Rights and Equity Brock Human Rights and Equity's (HRE) annual Art Speaks art exhibition returns this week with the theme … Read more: Brock Human Rights and Equity's Art Speaks returns this weekContinue Reading

At an event to honour the delegates, Dhami in Punjabi said, “I humbly request you all that human rights are being violated all over the world on a … Read more: 'Human rights violated in India': Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief tells G20 …Continue Reading

UNESCO Chair on Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at HBKU co-hosted a panel discussion on the book, Business and Human Rights Law and … Read more: HBKU Hosts Joint Book Launch with Oxford Business and Human Rights Network and …Continue Reading

If you are able to occupy a position in this leadership election that is grounded in utter indifference to the threat towards hard-won human rights, … Read more: Privileged men back Kate Forbes as human rights aren't a red line | The NationalContinue Reading

Then and now, Human Rights Watch urged parties to the conflict to compensate victims and hold perpetrators accountable, but impunity prevails. Read more: Twenty Years on, Iraq Bears Scars of US-led Invasion | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

SWAT: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairperson Hina Jilani has asked … The team spoke to a range of civil society members, journalists, … Read more: Human Rights Commission asks security forces to vacate school, college buildings in SwatContinue Reading

Human Rights Day, marked annually on March 21, is a national observation and proclamation of the rights we enjoy in our country. Read more: Locals urged to donate blood this Human Rights Day weekend – Germiston City NewsContinue Reading

Specifically, they want to look into whether the government and military were using cellphone-based spyware to spy on human rights activists and … Read more: Mexico probes army's use of spyware against human rights activists – WLRNContinue Reading