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As of the establishment of this convention, HM Government reserves the right to define “human” (basically anyone on more than £50k a year). ARTICLE 2: … Read more: Don't worry, be happy: here are your new human rights after ToryficationContinue Reading

UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor condemned on Monday the nearly decade-long detention of former Delhi University professor and human rights … Read more: UN condemns ongoing detention of human rights activist as 'inhumane and senseless'Continue Reading

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, met today with Human Rights Watch Executive Director Tirana Hassan. Read more: Readout of Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield's Meeting with Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

The Human Rights Service of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) published a report this morning detailing allegations of serious … Read more: Afghanistan: Amnesty violations – ohchrContinue Reading

… against the sentence of 13 years in a penal colony passed in the case of Ukrainian human rights defender, captured serviceman Maksym Butkevych … Read more: Russian court upholds 'sentence' to Ukrainian human rights defender Butkevych – UkrinformContinue Reading

Executive Director for “Democracy for the Arab World Now” Sarah Leah Whitson talks to Paula Newton about the Human Rights Watch report that … Read more: 'Shocking level of depravity' at Saudi border, alleges head of human rights organizationContinue Reading

High Commissioner for Human Rights in his Report on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age: where a State exercises regulatory jurisdiction over a … Read more: Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law – Just SecurityContinue Reading

By Claire Hunt, Human Rights First intern. Facing persecution and violence in their home countries, many LGBTQ+ people are forced to flee their … Read more: Asylum Ban Increases Threats of Sexual Violence Against LGBTQ+ Asylum SeekersContinue Reading

Amnesty international, SA Ukraine association and the all united Amhara association of South Africa picket at Innesfree park in Sandton ahead of … Read more: Civil rights groups gather to protest the BRICS summit – YouTubeContinue Reading

Ethiopia will launch a joint investigation with Saudi Arabia into a Human Rights Watch report accusing the kingdom's border guards of killing … Read more: Ethiopia unveils joint Saudi probe into alleged migrant killings – RFIContinue Reading

The Moscow court considered the appeal and upheld the decision on 13 years in prison for Maksym Butkevych, the Ukrainian human rights activist, … Read more: Moscow upholds 13-year prison sentence for Ukrainian human rights activist – Yahoo NewsContinue Reading

The Ethiopian government announced its intention to investigate a report released by a human rights organization detailing hundreds of alleged … Read more: Ethiopia to probe alleged killings at Yemen-Saudi border amid human rights concernsContinue Reading

The Moscow First Appellate Court has upheld a decision by Russian authorities to sentence Ukrainian human rights defender and soldier Maxim … Read more: Moscow court upholds 13-year prison sentence for Ukrainian human rights defender Maxim …Continue Reading

CNN's Salma Abdelaziz reports on allegations by the group Human Rights Watch, accusing Saudi border guards of killing Ethiopian migrants and … Read more: Rights group: Ethiopian migrants killed by Saudi border guards – CNNContinue Reading