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(Washington, DC, June 5, 2023): Secretary Blinken should raise pressing human rights concerns during his meetings with Saudi officials in his … Read more: U.S: Five Human Rights Concerns Secretary Blinken Should Raise with the Saudi GovernmentContinue Reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Eunic Epstein-Ortiz, ortiz@civilrights.org. WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference … Read more: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Calls on YouTube to Reverse Its …Continue Reading

Our relationship to human rights is ambivalent. We take them for granted, we don't want to be without them, but on the other hand, we see them as … Read more: Exploring Common Ground: Human Rights at ICANN – CircleIDContinue Reading

This is how Denise Pitcher, executive director of the Caribbean Centre for Human Rights, feels about a press conference held by the Ministry of … Read more: Human rights director: Not enough answers on claims of sex assaults on migrantsContinue Reading

Dr Malami Ma'aji, Ambassador At Large of African Region, International Human Rights Commission, has commended the peaceful democratic transition … Read more: International Human Rights Commission lauds Nigeria's peaceful transitionContinue Reading

Impakter talks to Hartman Deetz, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe environmental & cultural steward, about his work, worldview & environmental concerns. Read more: Earth as a Living Being: 'Human Rights Need to Be Extended to the Whole Fabric of Life'Continue Reading

Walden Bello and Center for International Law are named Most Distinguished Human Rights Defenders as an individual and organization, respectively. Read more: Rappler columnist Walden Bello, Center Law receive Ignite Awards for Human RightsContinue Reading

“We condemn the alarming use of spyware and surveillance technologies in violation of human rights and the broader chilling effect of such … Read more: Greater transparency needed to address negative impacts of new technologies on human rightsContinue Reading

The Malawi Human Rights Commission told Human Rights Watch that it had interviewed about 20 refugees and asylum seekers at Maula prison and Dzaleka … Read more: Malawi: Refugees, Including Children, Forcibly Relocated | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

The human rights organisations, civil society and the so-called intelligentsia lost no time in demanding 'protection of the rights' of the agitators … Read more: Sympathy for arsonists – Newspaper – DAWN.COMContinue Reading

The minor party agreed to update its policy position on human rights in the region at its national conference on Sunday; Greens Leader Adam Bandt … Read more: Greens say Israel is 'practicing crime of apartheid' and call for boycotts of far-right figuresContinue Reading

The US and Finland want to see a 6G system that is “democratic, transparent and where human rights are respected”, said Haavisto. Read more: Finland, US eye 6G to reduce Chinese tech dependence – EURACTIV.comContinue Reading

To uphold their human rights obligations, governments should commit to a phaseout of all fossil fuels as an overarching agreement of the upcoming … Read more: COP28: Ensure Fossil Fuel Phaseout in Climate Talks | Mirage NewsContinue Reading

A senator has accused the ACT's top prosecutor of breaching her human rights by unlawfully attacking her reputation in a letter he sent after the … Read more: Senator Linda Reynolds accuses Shane Drumgold SC of breaching her human rightsContinue Reading