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Research shows that human rights violations create social and political problems that can lead to conflict both within a country and … Read more: Ukraine's mixed human rights record could make it harder to maintain peace after the warContinue Reading

Realising the right to participate in pandemic prevention, preparedness and … Disaster Management · Health · Protection and Human Rights. Read more: Realising the right to participate in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response and beyondContinue Reading

The apex human rights panel has asked the authorities to submit the report … a petition by human rights defender and lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy. Read more: National Human Rights Commission seeks report on young cricketer's death in OdishaContinue Reading

There is little evidence of the law being enforced in recent years, but human rights groups say LGBTQ+ people are regularly subjected to … Read more: Pope and Justin Welby to visit South Sudan amid tensions over LGBTQ+ rightsContinue Reading

Louise Hartley Crouch wrote: “It is basic human rights to be able to use … Susan Smith added: “It is a basic human right; the school should be … Read more: Echo readers 'shocked' by 'prison-like' toilet gates – Southend EchoContinue Reading

Trade should not be defeating human rights'. The President on migration, the Irish housing crisis and how he has his role 'quite worked out'. Read more: Michael D Higgins: 'How many atrocities are ignored because of trade … – The Irish TimesContinue Reading

… escalating state surveillance in a move that has alarmed privacy and human rights experts. Thousands of protesters vandalized Brazil's Supreme … Read more: Brazil's Escalation of Facial Recognition Alarms Human Rights Experts – BrazzilContinue Reading

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela should release arbitrarily detained individuals and end torture, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human … Read more: UN rights chief asks Venezuela to release arbitrary detainees, end torture – ThePrintContinue Reading

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concern about a hunger strike by two young political activists and called on all sides … Read more: Rights commission expresses concern about hunger strike – Bangkok PostContinue Reading

There is a general recognition across Venezuela's political and social spectrum of the need for reform, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights … Read more: 'All sides need to think about the future they want for Venezuela', says UN human rights …Continue Reading

Masih Alinejad, Iranian journalist and women's rights activist, poses for … The Victim publicized the Iranian Government's human rights abuses; … Read more: 3 Men Arrested After Attempting to Kidnap Iranian-American Journalist – Business InsiderContinue Reading

Here in Caracas, I met with more than 125 members of civil society, human rights defenders, victims of human rights violations and representatives … Read more: UN Rights Chief Türk Wraps Up Mission to Venezuela – Mirage NewsContinue Reading

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, center, speaks during a press conference at the Simon Bolivar International Airport … Read more: Venezuela Human Rights Commissioner | AP International News | messenger-inquirer.comContinue Reading

(Ankeny, IA) — A member of the Ankeny Human Rights Commission is charged with sexual abuse. Police say 43-year-old Clarence Isaiah McGee sexually … Read more: Ankeny Human Rights Commission Member Charged With Sexual AbuseContinue Reading