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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

Despite being accused of human rights abuses, the Rapid Action Battalion was hosted in Poland and the Netherlands. Read more: Bangladesh's RAB received foreign intelligence training in the EU – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition has announced the 2022-23 SciTech and Human Rights FutureGen Scholars, an initiative that supports … Read more: 2022-23 SciTech and Human Rights FutureGen Scholars to Pursue Projects on DEI …Continue Reading

Despite the doom-and-gloom headlines, local civil society around the world is making real progress on human rights. Outgoing head of the Fund for … Read more: Don't Give Up on Funding Human Rights | Inside PhilanthropyContinue Reading

Later that day, Congress swore in Vice President Dina Boluarte as President of the nation. As international human rights organizations, CEJIL, DPLF, … Read more: Human Rights Organizations Call for Strengthening Democracy in Peru – WOLAContinue Reading