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PRESIDENT-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has promised to ensure "high-level of accountability" for human rights violations and abuses in … Read more: Marcos vows 'high-level of accountability' for human rights violations | The Manila TimesContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program Researcher Ryan Thoreson discusses why South Korea remains one of the laggards in the recognition of LGBT … Read more: Human Rights Watch's Thoreson on LGBT Rights in S. Korea – Bloomberg.comContinue Reading

Ahead of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released its 2021 annual report on … Read more: Out in the World: Ahead of summit, IACHR releases human rights report for the AmericasContinue Reading

It highlights the systemic barriers to youth's human rights, particularly education, employment and social security, health, and participation, … Read more: A/HRC/51/19: Human rights implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on young peopleContinue Reading

The United States Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the practices of state police in Louisiana, after several recent … Read more: Biden administration opens civil rights probe of Louisiana police – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

The war in Ukraine has also been a frontal assault on health and human rights. Amid the invasion by Russian President Vladimir Putin's military, … Read more: Opinion: WHA's Russia vote is a call to side with health, human rights | DevexContinue Reading

Failure to do so, 13 human rights organizations wrote in a joint letter to the U.S. president, could "embolden the crown prince to commit further … Read more: Biden Urged to Secure Public Guarantees on Human Rights Before Meeting Saudi PrinceContinue Reading

Jennifer Robinson welcomed a statement by the European Court of Human Rights which she said meant the UK Government has 'accepted her rights were … Read more: Julian Assange's lawyer has reached settlement with government 'over breach of her human rights'Continue Reading

Picture the Dream,” on display at the New-York Historical Society, shows that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement … Read more: Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children's Books – The New York TimesContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch said in a statement Thursday that “a grave human rights crisis has been unfolding” in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the … Read more: Watchdog Demands UN Reinstate Travel Ban on Afghan Taliban for Rights ViolationsContinue Reading

Presented annually, these awards honor individuals and community organizations who have made significant contributions to human and civil rights in … Read more: Human Rights Commission Seeks Nominations for 2022 Human Rights AwardsContinue Reading

… which recognises that the Chinese government's systemic human rights violations against the Uyghur people in East Turkistan "amount to crimes … Read more: Uyghur group hails recognition of China's human rights violations by European ParliamentContinue Reading

Two Cameroonian human rights defenders, Maximilienne C. Ngo Mbe and Felix Agbor Nkongho (Balla), were honored today, June 9, with the 2022 Robert … Read more: Cameroonian activists win 2022 RFK Human Rights Awards – Global VoicesContinue Reading

The Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has condemned the spate of killings and total disregard for the sanctity of … Read more: Human Rights Commission condemns killings by criminal elements – Tribune OnlineContinue Reading