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"Israel is showing once again that it is not interested in protecting civilians or respecting basic human rights. The complete cutoff of landline … Read more: Israel violates "most fundamental human rights, values": Ankara | Daily SabahContinue Reading

CODESA is a collective of Sahrawi human rights defenders. It was created in 2002, but the Moroccan authorities prevented CODESA's constituent congress … Read more: Prevention of the holding of the first national congress of the Sahrawi Collective of Human …Continue Reading

Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) outlined in a report on the recent developments and human rights violations in the embattled Gaza … Read more: Egypt Council For Human Rights highlights blatant violations of int'l humanitarian law in …Continue Reading

Moderated by Lydia Kembabazi, Advocacy Officer at the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), the panel included Deborah … Read more: NGO Forum: Enhancing civil society engagement with the AfCFTA | ISHRContinue Reading

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer reports on the United Nations Human Rights Council's annual meeting. Photo credit: Getty Images. Read more: Opinion Journal: Protecting Human Rights AbusersContinue Reading

High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is appealing for an end to the violence and carnage in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces continue … Read more: UN Human Rights Spokesperson: 'Nowhere is Safe in Gaza' – VOA NewsContinue Reading

Human rights defenders in Afghanistan are facing systemic persecution including physical violence, arbitrary detention, torture, killings, raids, and … Read more: Threat of forced return of Afghan human rights defenders at riskContinue Reading

The University of Maine Alumni Association and Greater Bangor Area Branch of the NAACP will host the third annual Robert Talbot Civil Rights … Read more: Robert Talbot Civil Rights Speaker Series returns Nov. 2 – UMaine NewsContinue Reading

Nasta Loika is a prominent human rights defender, one of the founders of Human Constanta , and a political prisoner . Read more: Belarus: Nasta Loika, Human rights defense behind bars | OMCTContinue Reading

… human rights law, and other harmful content against Palestinian and Jewish people. Amnesty International also documented concerning reports that … Read more: Global: Social media companies must step up crisis response on Israel-Palestine as online …Continue Reading

B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, documents human rights violations in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Read more: Human rights activist discusses ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas – ABC NewsContinue Reading

Zimbabwe's delegation at the 77th session of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) has lodged a formal complaint over unverified … Read more: Zim protests unverified human rights claims – The HeraldContinue Reading

“We believe many of those facing deportation will be at grave risk of human rights violations if returned to Afghanistan, including arbitrary arrest … Read more: Pakistan urged to halt Afghan deportations to avoid 'human rights catastrophe' | UN NewsContinue Reading

Right Livelihood was highly engaged at the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, delivering a total of nine oral statements. Read more: 54th UN Human Rights Council: We shed light on activist repression, indigenous peoples …Continue Reading