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Media practitioners have again been tasked to take up their role as watchdog by beaming searchlights on human rights and gender-based violence … Read more: Group tasks journalists on gender inequality, human rights violation reportageContinue Reading

By profession, he is a lawyer specializing in humanitarian, human-rights and refugee law. He has a special focus on the establishment and maintenance … Read more: United Nations names independent expert on human rights for Haiti. He's a familiar faceContinue Reading

On April 12, 2023, B.C.'s Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender released the following statement on the recent announcement that universal … Read more: Human Rights Commissioner troubled by end of mask mandates in healthcare settingsContinue Reading

Nearly half of all rights activists killed last year were from Colombia. Read more: Why is Colombia so deadly for human rights activists? – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

The Foreign Ministry affirmed that it will defend human rights … attack on the Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian … Read more: Palestine condemns Israeli institutions' systematic attacks on human rights Special …Continue Reading

'As mask restrictions have been lifted, I have repeatedly expressed concerns about the human rights implications of these policy decisions' Read more: End of health-care mask mandates puts vulnerable at risk: BC human rights commissionerContinue Reading

On March 28th, BIS issued a final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to confirm that protecting human rights worldwide is a … Read more: BIS Amends EAR To Include Human Rights Protection As A Basis For Adding Entities To … – MondaqContinue Reading

B.C.'s human rights commissioner says the province's decision to end mask mandates in health-care settings is putting vulnerable people at a … Read more: Human rights commissioner opposes end of mask mandate in B.C. health-care settingsContinue Reading

Recipients of 2022-23 Bernstein and Robina International Human Rights Fellowships, clockwise from top left: Kyra Blas '23, Simon Engler '23, … Read more: Seven New Fellows Will Work in Human Rights – Yale Law SchoolContinue Reading

Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated. All people are entitled to human rights, and all human … Read more: ALICA WALLACE: Human rights of women hampered by misinformation from church leadersContinue Reading

… child migrants breaches international human rights obligations … core obligations under international human rights law” over its approach to … Read more: UN Special Rapporteurs say UK approach to unaccompanied child migrants breaches … – JURISTContinue Reading

… the Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Federal Government to embrace bold proposed reforms to better protect people's right to privacy. Read more: Stronger laws needed to protect privacy and prevent data harvestingContinue Reading

Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender says the move is a violation of vulnerable peoples' rights to equal participation in their communities. “ … Read more: Human rights commissioner opposes end of mask mandate in B.C. health-care settings – Nelson StarContinue Reading

Another harsh sentence meted out to a human-rights lawyer is a reminder of how far the country has regressed under its current leadership. Read more: China Crackdown on Human–Rights Lawyers Is a Bad Sign – BloombergContinue Reading