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THE human rights of people in care are at risk of being disregarded by slow progress towards allowing visits after the pandemic and the wrong use … Read more: Human rights of those in care at risk, find MPs | Morning StarContinue Reading

Shurat HaDin claims UNHRC is 'deeply affected with antisemitism' after its probes into Israeli abuses against Palestinians. Read more: Israeli group urges US to label UN Human Rights Council a 'hate group' | Middle East EyeContinue Reading

Prominent international human rights lawyer, Caoilfhionn Gallagher has received death threats including one saying she will be murdered like Pat … Read more: UK: Government attacks on human rights lawyers are putting them in 'serious' dangerContinue Reading

In late July, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a draft resolution recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable … Read more: Why the UN General Assembly must back the right to a healthy environment – UN NewsContinue Reading

After the city of Minneapolis stalled negotiations with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights over the fate of the Minneapolis Police … Read more: City of Minneapolis and state's human rights dept. talking again about MPD reformsContinue Reading

Three police officers in Kenya have been found guilty of murdering three men, including human rights lawyer Willie Kimani, six years after their … Read more: Kenyan police officers found guilty of murder of three including human rights lawyerContinue Reading

According to the Bar Association, two lawyers were assaulted by the security forces. Journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders have a right to … Read more: Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence on raid on Sri Lanka …Continue Reading

A Kenyan court has found three policemen and a civilian guilty of the murder of a human rights lawyer and two other people in June 2016. Read more: Willie Kimani: Kenyan policemen guilty of murdering human rights lawyer – BBC NewsContinue Reading

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian Parliament has asked Europe's top human rights body to rescind a 2011 resolution that cited … Read more: Albania asks human rights body to cancel stolen organ claims | AP NewsContinue Reading

The 25th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights in Ukraine: achievements and future challenges. Kyiv, Ukraine 22 July 2022. Read more: The 25th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights in UkraineContinue Reading

The historic first debate in the UK Parliament on the issue of human rights at sea occurred on June 22, 2021, with a question put to the House by … Read more: The UK House of Lords Takes the Lead on Human Rights at Sea – The Maritime ExecutiveContinue Reading

The Government has published a Bill of Rights Bill which would repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and replace it with a new framework to implement … Read more: The Bill of Rights Bill – House of Commons Library – UK ParliamentContinue Reading

Wirral In It Togethe… on The European Response to Confl… Safeguarding liberty… on A powerful new human rights fi… White King on The Weekly Round- … Read more: The Weekly Round-up: Supreme Court to rule on indyref2, pandemic WhatsApps, and …Continue Reading

Analysis in Arabic on Tunisia about Protection and Human Rights; published on 21 Jul 2022 by Amnesty. Read more: Tunisia: A year of human rights regression since President's power-grab [EN/AR]Continue Reading