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According to Bangladeshi human rights monitors, security forces have committed over 600 enforced disappearances since 2009. While some people were … Read more: Bangladesh: Open Forced Disappearances Inquiry – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

The Chinese Communist party (CCP) is “seeking to silence criticism of its human rights abuses, and impose its foreign policy and Xi Jinping's thought … Read more: UK should take China to task on human rights and Taiwan, MPs say – The GuardianContinue Reading

Such activities have negative impacts on the enjoyment of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. A number of experts, … Read more: UN calls out fossil fuel major Saudi Aramco's climate crisis-related human rights violationsContinue Reading

The UN Human Rights Office has rallied behind Jenni Hermoso and 'all those working to end abuse and sexism in sport', after Spanish FA president … Read more: UN Human Rights Office insists everyone has a 'responsibility to call out sexual harassment …Continue Reading

The European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) on August 29 ruled in favor of a complaint by a Bosnian dignitary against Bosnia-Herzegovina and … Read more: European Court Again Rules That Bosnia's Constitution Violates Human RightsContinue Reading

According to statistics collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in the last month alone at least 100 civilians have been arrested … Read more: Security forces arrest four Kurdish civilians in Marivan, Saqqez – KHRNContinue Reading

(Beirut) – A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter, and YouTube activity, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more: Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

On behalf of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, I am writing to you regarding the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council … Read more: Letter to UN Human Rights Council members on atrocity prevention priorities at the …Continue Reading

Prominent Saudi human rights activist Lina al-Hathloul is to speak at a public meeting organised by Newcastle fans campaigning against… Read more: Saudi human rights activist to speak at Newcastle fans' forum | The Northern EchoContinue Reading

Human rights text from wooden blocks on desk. In 2009, after receiving a report from prominent Catholic priest Frank Brennan which recommended it, the … Read more: Toothless tiger: Human Rights Committee sits helplessly on the sidelinesContinue Reading

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected criticism of his government's human rights record [File: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters]. Read more: Venezuela using arbitrary detention as 'tool of repression': Amnesty | Human Rights NewsContinue Reading

This week, their efforts received an endorsement from an independent panel of experts that interprets United Nations human rights law, … Read more: Children Have a Right to Sue Nations Over Climate, U.N. Panel Says – The New York TimesContinue Reading

A prominent Pakistani human rights lawyer who criticised the powerful military has been re-arrested hours after a court granted her bail. Read more: Imaan Mazari-Hazir: Lawyer who called Pakistan army 'terrorists' re-arrested – BBC NewsContinue Reading

Most worryingly, this included suspending the Human Rights Act – for the second time – to allow for detention of children in adult watch houses … Read more: The sudden removal of children's human rights proves – yet again – why Queensland needs …Continue Reading