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Australian Human Rights Commission President, Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, has joined with colleagues to farewell and celebrate the … Read more: Farewell to the Race Discrimination Commissioner – Australian Human Rights CommissionContinue Reading

International leaders in the field of human rights and refugee trauma recovery will meet today in Adelaide for the 3rd Australia and New Zealand. Read more: Adelaide Welcomes World Leaders in Human Rights and Trauma RecoveryContinue Reading

When the human rights declaration was adopted in late 1948, only 14 countries had abolished capital punishment. Today, more than two-thirds of the … Read more: Imposing the Death Penalty on Children Runs the Risk of Killing an Innocent – PassBlueContinue Reading

Russia, expelled from the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2022, seeks to rejoin the Geneva-based body, defying Western nations' efforts to … Read more: Russia pursues UN Human Rights Panel seat after ejection over Ukraine war – The Kyiv IndependentContinue Reading

In the bustling heart of Amman, where history whispers through ancient streets, the fusion of art and human rights found a vivid expression. Read more: Art, Freedom, and Transformation: Stories of Umama and Sondos – UNESCOContinue Reading

While Russia has a reasonable chance of getting voted back onto the U.N. Human Rights Council, it simultaneously offers Western-allied members to keep … Read more: Rising Skepticism Over Moscow's Candidacy For United Nations Human Rights Council – OpEdContinue Reading

October 7, 2023 “The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) expresses its anger and condemnation at the Philippine … Read more: International Human Rights Group Condemns Philippine Police Execution Of Trade Union … – ScoopContinue Reading

World Mental Health Day is a chance to question the systems that undermine human happiness and creativity. Read more: Mental health is a human right: we're talking about a revolution – ArtsHubContinue Reading

… human rights lawyer and the founder of human rights group Manushya Foundation. "If you see your country becoming a colony of China, you see a … Read more: 'I feel hopeless': Living in a country on the brink – BBC NewsContinue Reading

Watch President of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre given human rights award by Saint Thomas University Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca. Read more: President of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre given human rights award by Saint …Continue Reading

Geneva [Switzerland], October 7 (ANI): Expressing 'deep concerns' over Hamas attacks on Israel, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk … Read more: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for "immediate stop" to violence in IsraelContinue Reading

… human rights Navi Pillay, and three Nobel laureates Shirin Ebadi … humanity, let alone on protection against crimes against humanity. The authors … Read more: Nobel peace prize winner joins calls for UN to criminalise gender apartheid – The GuardianContinue Reading

Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Price for "for her fight against the oppression of women in … Read more: Narges Mohammadi awarded 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her human rights activism in IranContinue Reading

Overwhelmed with emotion after hearing that his wife, Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, had won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, … Read more: Nobel Peace Prize winner's husband speaks of her dedication to human rights | NewsContinue Reading