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The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee released a statement on the human rights situation in the Philippines. Read more: WCC statement condemns grave human rights violations in the PhilippinesContinue Reading

ADF International is actively engaged in efforts to protect the human right to religious freedom for the people of India. Read more: Human rights advocates call for end to religious persecution in India following Modi's visit to USContinue Reading

Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Matilda Bogner … members of civil society, priests and teachers. Read more: Detentions of civilians in the context of the armed attack by the Russian Federation against UkraineContinue Reading

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday gave the green light to the prosecution to resume an investigation into alleged human … Read more: ICC judges give green light to continue Venezuela human rights investigation | ReutersContinue Reading

The Bonavero Institute seeks to foster robust and open discussion about some of the most important questions for constitutional and human rights … Read more: Litigating Rights: A Series of Conversations with Human Rights Litigators | Faculty of LawContinue Reading

First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit since it was set up says men subjected to 'inhuman and degrading' treatment. Read more: US subjects Guantánamo Bay detainees to 'cruel' treatment, UN says after visitContinue Reading

President Joko “Jokowi' Widodo on Tuesday launched a nationwide non-judicial settlement of 12 gross human rights violations in Rumoh Geudong in … Read more: Human rights reparations – Editorial – The Jakarta PostContinue Reading

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled that its prosecutors can resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in the South … Read more: ICC to continue investigation of human rights abuses in Venezuela – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

In this Project Syndicate analysis, experts argue that an approach based on human-rights principles is essential in tackling the current food and … Read more: A human–rights approach to solving global food crisis – Daily MonitorContinue Reading

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested a human rights lawyer, Abdul Mahmud. Mahmud was arrested for defending a neighbour … Read more: Nigerian Police Arrest Human Rights Lawyer, Mahmud For Reporting Power-Drunk …Continue Reading

In an interview on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, Miami mayor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez indicated that he was … Read more: 'What's a Uyghur': GOP presidential candidate gets caught unaware by a human rights questionContinue Reading

From left to right: top row, Emily Johnson, Lorenzo Pezzani, Hamed Sinno; middle row, Charles Heller, Faustin Linyekula, The White Pube; bottom row … Read more: OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College Releases New Publication SeriesContinue Reading

The CRG Assessment (including of assessments of legal environments, human rights, stigma, gender and key and vulnerable populations) is guided by four … Read more: Communities, Rights and Gender (CRG) Resources | Stop TB PartnershipContinue Reading

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a worker's application alleging discrimination because the worker filed a civil claim for … Read more: Worker's human rights complaint dismissed due to duplicate civil actionContinue Reading