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It is a huge blow to women's human rights and gender equality. Access to safe, legal and effective abortion is firmly rooted in international human … Read more: Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights On US Supreme Court Ruling … – Scoop NZContinue Reading

This visit has provided an important opportunity to discuss an array of human rights issues, and challenges, that the people of Bosnia and … Read more: UN High Commissioner For Human Rights M Bachelet Concludes Her Official Visit To … – Scoop NZContinue Reading

New Delhi, India – A United Nations expert has joined global human rights groups in expressing concern over the arrest of Indian rights defender … Read more: Teesta Setalvad who fought for 2002 Gujarat riot victims arrested | News – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

At the time human rights lawyer Tony Ellis described the ruling, which effectively meant people in New Zealand who were supposed to be locked up … Read more: Historic human rights court ruling to be appealed by the Crown and child rapist – NZ HeraldContinue Reading

"For all women, for human rights, we must engrave this acquired right in stone," Borne said on Twitter Saturday. French president Emmanuel Macron also … Read more: French PM keen to put abortion rights in constitution – EUobserverContinue Reading

Dale Husband Meng Foon | The Human Rights Commissioner. 00:00. 00:00. Role Funding: Meng Foon is the Race Relations Commissioner for Aotearoa New … Read more: Meng Foon | The Human Rights Commissioner – Waatea News: Māori Radio StationContinue Reading

… step backwards for the protection of fundamental human rights, … In doing so, SCOTUS ruled that there's no federal constitutional right to … Read more: Now that Roe v Wade has been overturned, what are the consequences? – Monash LensContinue Reading

The HRA essentially put the rights we derive from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into domestic legislation by empowering the UK … Read more: Jonathan Williams on the proposed British Bill or Rights | The National WalesContinue Reading

This raises complex human rights considerations. Perhaps mandatory vaccination should only be applicable in sectors such as education and … Read more: Are mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations a violation of human rights? – The Mail & GuardianContinue Reading

(Nairobi) – Armed separatist fighters have killed at least seven people, injured six others, raped a girl, and committed other grave human rights … Read more: Cameroon: Separatist Abuses in Anglophone Regions – ReliefWebContinue Reading

… our SNP elected members up in arms about the UK Government's Bill of Rights, which fundamentally reduces and takes away our human rights. Read more: Scotland's criminal defence system needs urgent investment to uphold human rightsContinue Reading

The Arakan Human Rights Defenders and Promoters Association (AHRDPA) said in a statement on Friday that the Myanmar military's arbitrary arrests … Read more: Military's arbitrary civilian arrests are violation of human rights: Arakan activist groupContinue Reading

Upcoming and past events from the Global Campus of Human Rights and from our Academic Partners. Read more: Events – Global Campus of Human RightsContinue Reading

“We know from Human Rights Watch work around the world that denying girls who are pregnant or adolescent mothers the right to study in public schools … Read more: Tanzania: Court to Rule on Education Ban for Pregnant Students – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading