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The Biden administration should withdraw this proposed rule and take effective steps — as Human Rights First and others have recommended — to uphold … Read more: Biden Administration's Proposed Asylum Ban: Illegal, Inhumane, and No SolutionContinue Reading

One change is how the CAT policy addresses the possibility that arms from the United States could be used for major human rights violations. Read more: U.S. weapons sales to get stricter human rights review under Biden – ZAWYAContinue Reading

"Ukrainian Artists United," seen in an installation in an undated handout photo taken at Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights, profiles 11 … Read more: Museum for Human Rights marks Ukraine invasion with film about artists during wartimeContinue Reading

By Mathieu Rosemain and America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) -Climate and human rights activists sued two of France's biggest corporations over … Read more: Activists sue BNP over energy loans, TotalEnergies over human rights – ThePrintContinue Reading

By conducting due diligence to uncover human rights abuses and environmental risks in supply chains, they can put pressure on their suppliers to … Read more: What is the Impact of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act on the Supplier Side?Continue Reading

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration unveiled on Thursday a long-awaited overhaul of arms export policy with increased emphasis on human … Read more: U.S. weapons sales to get stricter human rights review under Biden | ReutersContinue Reading

… deny deals on human rights grounds even as the Biden administration seeks to bolster the competitiveness of the U.S. defense industry abroad. Read more: Biden arms deal policy seeks to balance human rights and competition – Defense NewsContinue Reading

In Geneva, she will meet with senior officials from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Committee of the Red Cross … Read more: Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Barclay's …Continue Reading

Doha: Chairperson of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) H E Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah held a series of separate meetings with … Read more: Al Attiyah discusses climate change, human rights with prominent officials | The Peninsula QatarContinue Reading

Women's sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights, including the right to life, the right to be free from torture, the right … Read more: Menstrual health issues are human rights issues – Jamaica ObserverContinue Reading

Terrorist attacks on children's schools in America – this is definitely a violation of human rights. Because it is the government's responsibility to … Read more: Human Rights in United States – Daily TimesContinue Reading

In our inquiry, Human rights of asylum seekers in the UK, we heard evidence that, in some cases, children are initially wrongly assessed as adults, … Read more: Letter to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) | Children's Commissioner for EnglandContinue Reading

Authorities suspended some basic civil rights. The government jailed more than 60,000 people, saying it was fighting gang violence. Read more: El Salvador's fight against gang violence came at the cost of civil rights – NPRContinue Reading

To give up hope of democracy ever returning is to condemn an already beleaguered civil society to death by slow suffocation. Human rights activists … Read more: The Guardian view on human rights in Russia: back the resistance | EditorialContinue Reading