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That is a breach of my human rights.” Moss's arrest forms part of a wider pattern of police over-reaction to online posts, often at the behest of … Read more: Police gag order against union activist overturned in free speech caseContinue Reading

As Executive Director of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO), Tesfaye Gemechu operates in one of the most polarized and perilous spaces in … Read more: Human Rights Council Chief Addresses Bias Claims, Obstruction And Shrinking Civic SpaceContinue Reading

“The Taliban must immediately put an end to the criminal practice of corporal punishment and respect international human rights law.” Since returning … Read more: Amnesty Urges Taliban to End Public Floggings and Uphold Human Rights – KabulNowContinue Reading

Human rights violations · Indiscriminate killing · By Turkey · By … All Rights Reserved – The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights – 2025. Read more: New death toll | 1677 people killed, including 452 executed by members of the Ministries of …Continue Reading

For 62 long years, the Turkish Cypriot people have been denied their most basic human rights as a result of this mentality. … humanity. The … Read more: President Ersin Tatar condemns the Greek Cypriot leadership's primitive mentalityContinue Reading

The high commissioner observed patterns of surveillance and harassment of human rights defenders, civil society actors, and families of the … Read more: UN report on Sri Lanka sparks human rights concerns – JURIST – NewsContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has also documented “widespread abuses, including mass arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, and ill- … Read more: U.S. says “no credible reports of significant human rights abuses” in El SalvadorContinue Reading

BEIRUT – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Aug 15 condemned a five-year jail sentence it said had been handed down by a Qatari court against the leader … Read more: Human Rights Watch slams Qatar for handing Baha'i leader five-year jail termContinue Reading

Words like democracy, freedom, justice, fairness, human rights, along with lofty invocations of “protecting the rule of law,” have been co-opted by … Read more: Weaponizing Democracy and human rights in the age of doublespeakContinue Reading

The Advisory Opinion recognises climate change as a human rights issue but overlooks children – despite their advocacy and existing jurisprudence. Read more: The missing children in the ICJ climate change Advisory Opinion – Leiden Law BlogContinue Reading

… human rights defenders and journalists. Following Kobakhidze's announcement of Georgia's decision to defer negotiations on its accession to the EU … Read more: Georgia: Meeting under “Any Other Business” : What's In Blue – Security Council ReportContinue Reading

In May, for instance, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urged the Honduran government to "put an end" to the state of … Read more: How an emergency declaration deepened Honduras's crime crisis – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

Air freight connections between the Xinjiang region in north-western China and Europe have expanded rapidly over the past year. Read more: Human rights group highlights growing slave goods' air cargo corridor – The LoadstarContinue Reading

… human rights. These guarantee a right to free speech and peaceful assembly. Disproportionate governmental decisions – that do not properly balance … Read more: Palestine Action arrests: what happens next, and what it tells us about the breadth of …Continue Reading