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… to secondary schools and by credible reports of human rights abuses, … views of all Afghan peoplerespect human rights," McCary said adding, … Read more: If Taliban hope to gain international acceptance, they must respect human rights: USContinue Reading

A Tory MP lobbied the Foreign Office to support a central Asian country's bid for a seat on the UN human rights council despite its appalling … Read more: Tory MP Andrew Bridgen lobbied for authoritarian state Uzbekistan to sit on human rights councilContinue Reading

Advocacy groups include those working in human rights, women's rights, and labour and land rights. Myanmar has 1,142 registered local nonprofits … Read more: Human rights, women's groups to be taxed under new rules | Myanmar NOWContinue Reading

The Civil Society Consortium on Civic Space has condemned the imprisonment of a human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, by the Chief Judge of Akwa … Read more: Group condemns human rights lawyer's incarceration by Akwa Ibom Chief JudgeContinue Reading

After civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963, Russell held the city's first integrated basketball camps. In … Read more: NBA and Civil Rights Icon Bill Russell Dead at 88: 'Our Beloved No. 6' – PeopleContinue Reading

CJI Ramana urged the law graduates to be a beacon of social justice and requested them to use the skills that they have learnt in the university … Read more: Victims of human rights violations either by state or anti-social elements: CJI NV RamanaContinue Reading

A UN watchdog has urged Hong Kong to “take concrete steps” to repeal the Beijing-decreed national security law as it is threatening civil rights … Read more: UN human rights watchdog urges Hong Kong to take 'concrete steps' to repeal national security lawContinue Reading

Recent court rulings vindicate a woman's right to believe that … Bailey was treated appallingly by the human rights QCs who headed her chambers … Read more: Don't buy the Stonewall line on gender identity? Fine. You can't be sacked for that now | Sonia SodhaContinue Reading

The decision is "historic" as the right was not included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. "This resolution sends a message that … Read more: UN declaring healthy environment as human right is 'glimmer of hope': Turkish expertContinue Reading

By Julius Adeoye. The spate of shooting attacks in communities has riveted attention on America's staggering number of public mass killings, … Read more: America's gun control, effects on human rights – Vanguard NewsContinue Reading

Chinese human rights lawyer Chang Weiping stood trial for a subversion charge in Shaanxi province behind closed doors and moreover his wife was. Read more: Chinese Human Rights Lawyer In Closed-Door Trial As Family Members Held By Police – menafnContinue Reading

The Conference was held on July 28, where the Kashmiri Nationalist human rights activists, thinkers, politicians and other renowned Diaspora … Read more: UK: Conclave on Kashmir condemns Pakistan for violating human rights in PoJK – ThePrintContinue Reading

Our grandmothers fought for our rights to vote. Our mothers fought for our right to choose. Now it is time to fight for our right to be human in … Read more: I wrote a bill for human rights | Opinion | johnsoncitypress.comContinue Reading

In a letter, the chief of the UN's Human Rights Treaties Branch, Ibrahim Salama, said it had "requested the state party (the government) to … Read more: Archie Battersbee's parents appeal to Health Secretary – BBC NewsContinue Reading