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Such a claim is now sitting in front of the federal housing advocate, a new position within the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Those pushing the … Read more: Lack of low-cost housing is a human rights violation, say these women collecting evidence in CalgaryContinue Reading

New associations launch to fill a void in their sector. Here, the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association tells us why they started. Read more: Startup Stories: Business and Human Rights Lawyers AssociationContinue Reading

Since the beginning of the democratic uprising in Bahrain in 2011, the U.S. government has failed to stand behind peaceful human rights activists … Read more: BAHRAIN – Human Rights FirstContinue Reading

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody travelled to Stormont this week to deliver a powerful message about human rights and mental health in Northern … Read more: Snow Patrol: Watch as Gary Lightbody gives powerful speech at Northern Ireland human rights talkContinue Reading

FIFA disbanded its human rights board two years ago and did not act on a plea to urgently replace it with new independent advisers particularly … Read more: EXCLUSIVE: Were human rights checks abandoned in Qatar? – YouTubeContinue Reading

The concerns, criticisms and debates at the Qatar World Cup about human rights and other contentious issues served as reminders that sporting … Read more: The Qatar World Cup Showed That Sports and Politics Are InseparableContinue Reading

Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, attend the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala in … Read more: Harry-and-Meghan style wokeness is making even human rights commissions look reasonableContinue Reading

News and Press Release in English on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 16 Dec 2022 by OHCHR. Read more: Message by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on International Migrants …Continue Reading

Human rights group claims that Qatar's efforts to compensate workers are inadequate given scale of deaths and injuries on the job. Read more: Qatar and Fifa accused of 'grossly inaccurate' claims about abused World Cup workers by …Continue Reading

Human rights officials in Nigeria say they will investigate a report that the country's military forced abortions on over 10000 women who had been … Read more: Nigerian human rights officials to investigate report the military forced abortions on … – Fox NewsContinue Reading

The toolkit is primarily intended for use by young people and youth activists, including young human rights defenders and young peacebuilders, as well … Read more: Youth Rights Advocacy Toolkit – OHCHRContinue Reading

We at Human Rights First have supported legislation that would prevent the return of such financial sanctions in the future, but even small, positive … Read more: Undoing Some Damage, U.S. Commits to More Support for ICC – Human Rights FirstContinue Reading

UN Human Rights report urges re-think of temporary labour migration programmes. GENEVA (16 December 2022) – States must do more to uphold the … Read more: “We wanted workers, but human beings came”: Human Rights and Temporary Labour … – ReliefWebContinue Reading

The UN high commissioner for human rights has hailed the proposals as a "significant step forward". Read more: UN chief backs Scottish government's gender recognition reforms – BBC NewsContinue Reading