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This week, the Federal Court dealt with matters commenced by parties challenging decisions made by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, … Read more: Federal Court hears human rights, immigration, labour, tax, trademark casesContinue Reading

Kennedy Human Rights, and Asian Legal Resource Centre. The submission, sent for the 44th session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group … Read more: CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Bangladesh ahead of UN human rights reviewContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on Tunis to stop sending migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa to a dangerous part of the Tunisia-Libya border and send … Read more: Human Rights Watch Urges Tunisia To Stop Mistreatment Of MigrantsContinue Reading

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), an organization with dubious intentions and activities, has been linked to an alarming scheme of … Read more: Asian Human Rights Commission, a home of thuggish sex-offenders – Weekly BlitzContinue Reading

If this constitutes a government policy, then these killings are crimes against humanity, as stated by Human Rights Watch on Monday. Read more: Human Rights Watch: Saudi Border Guards Shot Hundreds of Ethiopian Migrants – OCCRPContinue Reading

This kind of harmful misinformation and disinformation can have devastating effects on human rights, social cohesion and democratic processes. This … Read more: Countering Disinformation Online – Australian Human Rights CommissionContinue Reading

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said it has credible reports of serious human rights violations by the “de facto … Read more: UNAMA Reports on the Violation of Human Rights Over Past 2 Years – TOLOnewsContinue Reading

From August 22 to 25, 2023, human rights organizations from different countries carried out an independent international mission in the Province … Read more: International Mission in Jujuy: eight international civil society organizations will observe …Continue Reading

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