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Criminal lawyer Bipan Ghai has been appointed as the chairman of the PCC Legal, Human Rights and RTI Cell. He is the brother of new … Read more: Punjab A-G Vinod Ghai's brother to head PCC Legal, Human Rights & RTI CellContinue Reading

Global Fund human rights funding is unprecedented. In the 20 countries of the Breaking Down Barriers initiative, Global Fund investments in programs … Read more: Global Fund Reports Significant Progress in Breaking Down Human Rights-Related Barriers …Continue Reading

People in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have recently been sending emails to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle … Read more: Xinjiang residents send their stories to UN's human rights chief – Ecns.cnContinue Reading

Human Rights Tribunal has ruled. In a decision issued Friday, tribunal member Amber Prince ordered NLFD Auto, which operates as Prince George Ford, to … Read more: Prince George Ford dealership fired employee who was on maternity leave, tribunal rulesContinue Reading

News and Press Release in English on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 30 Jul 2022 by UNICEF. Read more: Reclaiming Digital Spaces to Counter Human Trafficking and Protect its Victims – ReliefWebContinue Reading

The head of the US mission to Afghanistan, Ian McCary said that the United States will continue to hold the Taliban accountable for the … Read more: Respect Human Rights To Gain International Acceptance: US To Taliban – NDTV.comContinue Reading

… to secondary schools and by credible reports of human rights abuses, … views of all Afghan peoplerespect human rights," McCary said adding, … Read more: If Taliban hope to gain international acceptance, they must respect human rights: USContinue Reading

A Tory MP lobbied the Foreign Office to support a central Asian country's bid for a seat on the UN human rights council despite its appalling … Read more: Tory MP Andrew Bridgen lobbied for authoritarian state Uzbekistan to sit on human rights councilContinue Reading

Advocacy groups include those working in human rights, women's rights, and labour and land rights. Myanmar has 1,142 registered local nonprofits … Read more: Human rights, women's groups to be taxed under new rules | Myanmar NOWContinue Reading

The Civil Society Consortium on Civic Space has condemned the imprisonment of a human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, by the Chief Judge of Akwa … Read more: Group condemns human rights lawyer's incarceration by Akwa Ibom Chief JudgeContinue Reading

After civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963, Russell held the city's first integrated basketball camps. In … Read more: NBA and Civil Rights Icon Bill Russell Dead at 88: 'Our Beloved No. 6' – PeopleContinue Reading

CJI Ramana urged the law graduates to be a beacon of social justice and requested them to use the skills that they have learnt in the university … Read more: Victims of human rights violations either by state or anti-social elements: CJI NV RamanaContinue Reading

A UN watchdog has urged Hong Kong to “take concrete steps” to repeal the Beijing-decreed national security law as it is threatening civil rights … Read more: UN human rights watchdog urges Hong Kong to take 'concrete steps' to repeal national security lawContinue Reading

Recent court rulings vindicate a woman's right to believe that … Bailey was treated appallingly by the human rights QCs who headed her chambers … Read more: Don't buy the Stonewall line on gender identity? Fine. You can't be sacked for that now | Sonia SodhaContinue Reading