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Cuba enacted a new penal code this week that activists and human rights organizations worry could further limit free expression and snuff out … Read more: Human rights groups criticize Cuba's new criminal code – ABC NewsContinue Reading

Analysis in English on Ukraine about Health and Protection and Human Rights; published on 2 Dec 2022 by OHCHR. Read more: Update on the human rights situation in Ukraine (1 August – 31 October 2022) [EN/RU/UK]Continue Reading

The code, a modified version of the country's 1987 regulations approved by the Cuban government in May, will ripple to journalists, human rights … Read more: Human rights groups criticize Cuba's new criminal code – Yahoo News UKContinue Reading

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba enacted a new penal code this week that activists and human rights… Read more: Human rights groups criticize Cuba's new criminal code – Manistee News AdvocateContinue Reading

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry took a swipe at the West for its shameful record of political use of human … Read more: US Has No Right to Comment on Human Rights: Iranian Spokesman – Politics newsContinue Reading

Trans rights, women's rights, human rights: beyond the vitriol. How did the small and vulnerable transgender community become so vilified in the … Read more: Trans rights, women's rights, human rights: beyond the vitriol – Yorkshire BylinesContinue Reading

Human rights barrister Graeme Edgeler told Stuff that Moncur could raise a case for indirect discrimination on the grounds of her political beliefs if … Read more: New Zealand woman takes Chinese media site to human rights tribunal over banContinue Reading

… on Human Rights standards while adjudication of criminal cases … and the European Court of Human Rights related to domestic violence, … Read more: tackling criminal aspects of the judicial reforms in Georgia – The Council of EuropeContinue Reading

Activists from over 200 universities participated to raise awareness about the human rights violations in Iran that garnered global attention … Read more: GU Students, Faculty Denounce Human Rights Violations in Iran – The HoyaContinue Reading

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal found VACFSS discriminated against the woman while her four children were in "care" and ordered a $150K fine. Read more: Indigenous mother wins landmark human rights case – The Discourse.Continue Reading

Write for Rights 2022: Canada celebrates world's largest human rights event with first in-person Write-A-Thons in three years. Read more: Write for Rights 2022: Canada celebrates world's largest – GlobeNewswireContinue Reading

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a massive coalition of more than 200 civil rights groups in the U.S., urged the Biden … Read more: Civil rights group calls on Biden to change domestic terrorism strategy – The HillContinue Reading

“This libel case is an attack on truth and those who wield it to champion peoples' political rights,” said CPA in a statement decrying the guilty … Read more: Baguio court finds human rights defender guilty of cyber libel – BulatlatContinue Reading

At the 35th Special Session of the Human Rights Council, Equality Now, in partnership with the Centre for Supporters of Human Rights (CSHR), … Read more: A Step Towards Protecting Human Rights in Iran – Equality NowContinue Reading