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Human rights are becoming a privilege, and politicians have a responsibility to adopt guarantee the protection and rights of LGBTQI+ people, … Read more: Human rights in Serbia are becoming a privilege, say experts – EURACTIV.comContinue Reading

Human rights cannot be used as a defence for causing significant … would be a disproportionate interference with their right to protest. Read more: Human rights not a defence for significant criminal damage, court rules in Bristol Colston statue caseContinue Reading

(New York) – The Sri Lankan government should reverse a new regulation that unlawfully restricts protests in large areas of the capital, Colombo, … Read more: Revoke Sweeping New Order to Restrict Protest – Human Rights Watch – Newsfirst.lkContinue Reading

'They are not only inspired by Euro 92, paying tribute to Denmark's greatest football success, but also a protest against Qatar and its human rights … Read more: England World Cup sponsors are under pressure to take a stand against Qatar's human rights recordContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch has released on Sept 26 a report shedding light on the ordeal of Slimane Bouhafs, a Kabyle refugee registered with UNHCR who was … Read more: Algeria's domination of Tunisia, implications for human rights – The North Africa PostContinue Reading

Protesters accused of “significant” criminal damage cannot rely on human rights protections when on trial, the court of appeal has said. Read more: Colston four: protesters cannot rely on 'human rights' defence, top judge rulesContinue Reading

The toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was “violent” and therefore human rights protections were not available as a defence to a … Read more: Human rights protections were no defence to 'violent' Colston statue topplingContinue Reading

The Court of Appeal ruled that human rights was not a defence for significant damage or that caused during violent protests such as the felling of … Read more: Toppling Edward Colston's statue not protected by human rights, judges ruleContinue Reading

For more than two decades, the National Immigrant Justice Center's Human Rights Awards luncheon has honored human rights champions and business, … Read more: Sponsorship information for the 24th Annual Human Rights AwardsContinue Reading

Denmark's new jerseys for the World Cup finals in Qatar have been designed in protest at the host nation's human rights record, their kit … Read more: Denmark's World Cup kit designed as protest against Qatar's human rights recordContinue Reading

… the hosts as a nation, citing their human rights record and failure to protect workers during the construction of stadiums for the World Cup. Read more: Denmark supplier announces World Cup kits designed to 'protest against Qatar and its …Continue Reading

The Danish football team will wear kits that protest Qatar's human rights record at the World Cup – with a black option honouring migrant workers … Read more: Denmark to protest Qatar's human rights record at World Cup with faded shirts | ITV NewsContinue Reading

A prominent Palestinian-French human rights lawyer has gone on hunger strike in protest against his imprisonment without charge by Israeli … Read more: Human rights lawyer in Israeli prison goes on hunger strike | Israel – The GuardianContinue Reading

Maxwell Johnson arrives Wednesday to sign a human rights settlement with the Vancouver Police Board over his and his granddaughter's wrongful … Read more: Heiltsuk man, granddaughter handcuffed outside Vancouver bank settle human rights case … – CBCContinue Reading