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Nearly six years after the Street People's Movement submitted a dossier of complaints to the SA Human Rights Commission, accusing the City, … Read more: Call for SA Human Rights Commission to release findings of 2016 complaints by the homeless – IOLContinue Reading

From William D Zabel, Lead Lawyer for the ACLU in the Loving Case; Chairman of Immigrant Justice Corps and Chairman Emeritus of Human Rights First … Read more: Letter: Dobbs case ruling creates nightmare scenario in US – Financial TimesContinue Reading

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani said that today the human rights is a tool at the service of broader … Read more: Iranian Deputy FM: Human rights instrument at service of US hegemonyContinue Reading

Senior Iranian rights official says the US is in no position to talk about the issue of human rights given its far-and-wide and ongoing … Read more: US not qualified to talk about human rights, must answer for violations: GharibabadiContinue Reading

South African Human Rights Commissioner Andre Gaum has cautioned. that proposals to remove the deadlines for school infrastructure projects could … Read more: SAHRC: Scrapping deadlines to fix schools could have human rights implications – News24Continue Reading

Since the February 2021 coup, Human Rights Watch and others have documented that the military and pro-military militias have summarily executed and … Read more: Myanmar Military Atrocities Laid Bare in Gruesome Footage – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

International law, encompassing rule of law and human rights, … To this effect, the Chagossians' right to exercise self-determination – and … Read more: Why Britain's Claim to the Chagos Islands Undermines International LawContinue Reading

KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 – More than 100 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have criticised the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia's (Suhakam) new … Read more: Suhakam Line-Up Slammed: What Has Dr John Chew Done For Human Rights?Continue Reading

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan says Kashmir is an integral part of Pakistan and Pakistan is incomplete without it … Read more: Indian forces involve in worst type of human rights violations in IIOJK: TanveerContinue Reading

Legal experts and the Human Rights Activists are at daggers drawn with the Senate over its decision to probe the immediate past Chief Justice of … Read more: Furore Over Senate's Decision to Probe Ex-CJN, Justice Muhammad – THISDAYLIVEContinue Reading

… the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar held on 29 June 2022 during the 50th session of the Human Rights Council in … Read more: Myanmar rebuts oral update of Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in …Continue Reading

Many American women mourned the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe, but for others it is a moment of triumph and a matter of human rights. Read more: 'The Pro-Life Generation': Young Women Fight Against Abortion RightsContinue Reading

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has added its voice to the condemnation of the criminal acts that were committed last Tuesday when … Read more: Human rights association condemns East Coast disturbances, police responseContinue Reading

Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch. Biden will encourage normalisation of Israel-Saudi relations and seek to ease Palestinian tensions – he is due … Read more: A mirage of peace? Joe Biden ventures back into Middle East's shifting sandsContinue Reading