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The government of Sri Lanka's proposed Anti-Terrorism Act would empower the authorities to systematically violate fundamental human rights, … Read more: Human Rights Watch calls for withdrawal of Sri Lanka's new anti-terror bill | EconomyNextContinue Reading

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A regional human rights body implored El Salvador's government on Thursday to reverse a year-long suspension of … Read more: Human rights body urges El Salvador to restore civil rights – WTVBContinue Reading

North Korea on Thursday denounced a recent United Nations Human Rights Council (Unhrc) resolution that criticized the North's human rights … Read more: North Korea denounces UN's condemnation of human rights violationsContinue Reading

The figures are based on statistics by the HRD Memorial, a collective initiative of human rights organizations working to collect and verify data on … Read more: Latin America The Deadliest Region For Human Rights Defenders – OpEd – Eurasia ReviewContinue Reading

A regional human rights body implored El Salvador's government on Thursday to reverse a year-long suspension of constitutional rights that form … Read more: Human rights body urges El Salvador to restore civil rights – Yahoo NewsContinue Reading

Lawyers for Saskatoon woman Dawn Walker say the kidnapping and other charges against her should be stayed because her human rights were allegedly … Read more: Lawyers want abduction charges stayed against Sask. woman, citing alleged human rights violationsContinue Reading

RIYADH: The Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) welcomed on Thursday a decision from the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a draft resolution … Read more: Saudi Human Rights Commission welcomes UN adoption of draft resolution on tackling …Continue Reading

(AGENPARL) – GENEVA gio 06 aprile 2023. Human Rights Council 52nd Session. U.S. Statements at HRC Voting Sessions. Human Rights Council 52nd … Read more: Human Rights Council 52nd Session – U.S. Statements at HRC Voting Sessions – AgenparlContinue Reading

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution this week that condemns the “negative impact of unilateral coercive measures … Read more: UN Human Rights Council Condemns Impact of Sanctions – Consortium NewsContinue Reading

Critics from the right accused him of abandoning U.S. allies. Human rights activists within his own administration sometimes lamented he did not press … Read more: How Jimmy Carter Transformed U.S.-Latin America RelationsContinue Reading

Radical Desi has given its very first human rights journalism award to a senior Punjabi journalist. On Friday, March 31, at the commemorative … Read more: Dr. Gurvinder Singh Dhaliwal Honoured With Human Rights Journalism AwardContinue Reading

Although the Biden administration has robustly participated in U.N. human rights institutions – and even hopes the U.S. will lead the U.N. Human … Read more: Safeguarding Democracy: US should establish a national human rights institutionContinue Reading

A delegation from the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights visited the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on 4-6 April. Read more: MEPs express great concern over the worsening human rights situation in VietnamContinue Reading

… international allies will brief reporters on the grave threat to human rights posed by ongoing UN Cybercrime Treaty negotiations that could… Read more: Media Briefing: Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Negotiations Headed in Troubling …Continue Reading