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The UK's human rights watchdog advised in April that the Equality Act could be changed to redefine sex as “biological sex”. (Getty). Read more: EHRC is 'harming' trans community and is a 'failed institution', LGBTQ+ groups warnContinue Reading

May 9, 2023 – Human rights organisations, including World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH in the framework of the Observatory for (. Read more: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Open Letter from civil society organizations in support of human … – FIDHContinue Reading

(May 9, 2023 / JNS) The death on May 1 in an Israeli prison of Khader Adnan, a senior member of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) … Read more: Palestinians: More human rights violations no one talks about – JNS.orgContinue Reading

Putting AI on pause gives us time to regroup around human rights. May 9, 2023. UBCO political science professor Dr. Wendy Wong wrote about putting … Read more: Putting AI on pause gives us time to regroup around human rights – UBC NewsContinue Reading

Local campaigners claim PFAS emissions from US plant violate various rights, including to clean water and a sustainable environment. Read more: UN asked to investigate 'human rights violations' by Chemours | Business | Chemistry WorldContinue Reading

Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were executed for crimes including blasphemy, insulting the religion of Islam, the prophet and other … Read more: Iran hangs two men for blasphemy, drawing condemnation from human rights group …Continue Reading

… failure to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 right away, … defying advice from Aboriginal, legal and human rights organisations. Read more: ACT Government delays raising the age to 14, defying advice from Aboriginal, legal and …Continue Reading

Such child labor is a gross violation of human rights. Shareholders have a right to know the extent to which Ford's business plans involve the … Read more: Conservative Shareholder Activists Present Proposals Addressing Child Labor, Chinese …Continue Reading

The Commission would consider the suo motu case on May 19..tanur boat tragedy. malappuram boat mishap. human rights commission to investigate on … Read more: Boat tragedy: Human Rights Commission takes suo motu case, asks top officials to submit reportContinue Reading

Economy|Human Rights … Under the law, Hong Kong's rights and freedoms, which once set the territory apart from the Chinese mainland, … Read more: Hong Kongers fleeing China's crackdown denied pension savings – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil … Read more: BREAKING: Louisiana House Passes Discriminatory Education Bill Targeting LGBTQ+ YouthContinue Reading

Charlotte-Anne Malischewski is the interim commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. She was appointed before employees filed a … Read more: Human rights commission says staffers linked to workplace racism have been reassignedContinue Reading

Human rights groups have raised concerns that controversial mining companies, including one with a subsidiary under investigation by the UK's … Read more: Concerns raised over mining companies' role in battery passport scheme – The GuardianContinue Reading

Recommendations for future climate-change-responsive prison policies in Africa are warranted and should incorporate agreed human-rights-based … Read more: COVID-19, conflict, climate change, and the human rights of people living in African prisonsContinue Reading