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Kara-Murza has been a senior advisor to Human Rights First since 2020, … and governments and civil society voices around the world will continue … Read more: Human Rights First Welcomes U.S. Sanctions for Vladimir Kara-Murza's PersecutorsContinue Reading

The Italian case follows a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that there is a 'general system of violence' in the Chinese prison system. Read more: Italian supreme court blocks extradition to China after landmark human rights rulingContinue Reading

Watch as Volker Turk, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, briefs the Human Rights Council in Geneva on the situation in … Read more: Watch: High Commissioner for Human Rights briefs council on situation in PalestineContinue Reading

On February 28, 2023, a group of 60 civil and human rights organizations led by Human Rights Watch (HRW) pushed the United Nations to oppose … Read more: Human Rights Organizations Urge UN to Protect Body Investigating Tigray Conflict | ASILContinue Reading

Responding to the sentencing of founder and chair of Viasna human rights centre and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, who received a … Read more: Belarus: Sentencing of human rights defenders a 'blatant retaliation' for their workContinue Reading

Three key figures from leading human rights group Viasna jailed for between seven and ten years Sham case against the three involved fabricated … Read more: Belarus: Jailing of three human rights defenders is 'blatant retaliation' for their workContinue Reading

On 1 March, he gave an eyewitness account of what it's like to monitor human rights in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Read more: What's it like to monitor human rights in Hebron? Alex Brock gives eyewitness accountContinue Reading

F1: Lewis Hamilton warns sport must do more over human rights issues ahead of Bahrain Grand Prix. Seven-time world champion wants action as 2023 … Read more: F1: Lewis Hamilton warns sport must do more over human rights issues ahead of Bahrain Grand PrixContinue Reading

A report published by the United Nations on Friday accused Myanmar's military of creating "a perpetual human rights crisis" in the southeast Asian … Read more: Myanmar military has caused 'perpetual human rights crisis', UN report says | ReutersContinue Reading

Those responsible for throttling the Internet in Turkey during a time of crisis must be held accountable for this human rights violation. Read more: Turkey: Internet throttling violates human rights – ARTICLE 19Continue Reading

A court in Minsk has sentenced the chairman of the Belarusian human rights center Viasna, Ales Bialiatski, to 10 years in a strict regime colony. Read more: Belarusian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski sentenced to 10 …Continue Reading

He is convicted of bringing money into the country to finance the so-called “illegal activities” of civil society, a sentence which both human rights … Read more: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in prisonContinue Reading

The report detailed a myriad of alleged human rights abuses, ranging from torture and arbitrary deprivation of nationality to extrajudicial executions … Read more: UN Human Rights Council: over 40 executed in Nicaragua, among other human rights abusesContinue Reading

Human rights campaigner Alaa Al-Siddiq died when the BMW she was in was involved in a crash on the A361 near Burford, her Oxford inquest heard. Read more: BMW crash victim Alaa Al-Siddiq was on Cotswolds birthday weekend | Oxford MailContinue Reading