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This year's Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Ales Bialiatski will not be able to receive the award in person. The human rights activist and opponent of … Read more: Ales Bialiatski, Belarusian human rights warrior – DW – 12/09/2022Continue Reading

We reiterate our condemnation of Iran's brutal acts of violence against peaceful protestors, ongoing denial of human rights and fundamental freedoms, … Read more: Combatting Global Corruption and Human Rights Abuses – State DepartmentContinue Reading

For Human Rights Day, UN launches yearlong campaign to mark adoption 75 years ago of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Read more: UN: Growing Disregard for Human Rights Threatens Global Peace and DevelopmentContinue Reading

News and Press Release in English on World and 6 other countries about Protection and Human Rights; published on 9 Dec 2022 by OHCHR. Read more: Human Rights Day – Opening statement by HC Volker Türk – World | ReliefWebContinue Reading

Moves by ministers to replace the Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights was singled out as a particular cause for alarm by the Council of … Read more: Westminster 'increasingly antagonistic' towards human rights, inquiry finds | Morning StarContinue Reading

Human rights touch the lives of everyone: those with a disability, Native populations, those discriminated racially and ethnically, the LGBTQIA+ … Read more: Cause of the Week: Human Rights | Combined Federal CampaignContinue Reading

After the surveys, she contacted human rights defenders, NGOs, multilateral organisations and shipping representatives, and even went on board two … Read more: ABN AMRO pioneers human rights data collection on TikTok – Responsible InvestorContinue Reading

[1/2] Yasonna Laoly, Indonesian Minister of Law and Human Rights, receives the new criminal code report from Bambang Wuryanto, … Read more: Indonesia's new laws a threat to privacy, press and human rights, says UN | ReutersContinue Reading

The US is preparing a fresh round of sanctions on Russia and China for what it describes as human rights abuses by both countries, according to an … Read more: US Readies Sanctions Against Russia, China Over Human Rights – Bloomberg.comContinue Reading

We have always been clear that social security is an investment in people and that social security is itself a basic human right – these are two … Read more: Scotland's approach to social security is one based on basic human rights, dignity and respectContinue Reading

The official position of the UK Government is that it wants to stay in the ECHR but to replace the Human Rights Act (HRA) with a British Bill of … Read more: Joanna Cherry: UK wants to limit human rights as Scotland looks to expand them – The NationalContinue Reading

The U.S., by using those powers to sanction high-profile government, military and business officials accused of human-rights abuses and corruption, … Read more: U.S. to Levy Human–Rights Sanctions on Russia, China – WSJContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch – which along with other rights groups were sanctioned by Beijing last July – will join Arizona State University (ASU)'s journalism … Read more: JUST IN: NGO Human Rights Watch to co-host Hong Kong's Human Rights Press AwardsContinue Reading

The UK government has “an increasingly antagonistic attitude” towards human rights that is weakening instead of strengthening protections for the … Read more: Watchdog criticises UK ministers' 'antagonism' towards human rights – The GuardianContinue Reading