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Amnesty International UK has welcomed today's damning report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), which finds that foreign states are … Read more: UK has 'become a hunting ground for authoritarian regimes' – Amnesty International UKContinue Reading

Bessent added that the judge is "responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights, and politicized … Read more: US sanctions Brazilian judge overseeing Bolsonaro case – BBC NewsContinue Reading

Reacting to the killing of Awda Al-Hathaleen Amnesty International's Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara … Read more: Killing of prominent Palestinian activist Awda Al-Hathaleen demands justice – Amnesty InternationalContinue Reading

The crucial sanction for the suspension of Hungarian citizenship is that the “suspended” Hungarian citizen may be excluded, that is essentially … Read more: Statelessness, Human Rights and the Doubling of Criminal Law: Hungary's New Law on the …Continue Reading

Australia's National Children's Commissioner and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner are backing calls from child … Read more: Commissioners urge NT Govt to reconsider new child justice lawsContinue Reading

Analysis in English on Madagascar about Climate Change and Environment, Protection and Human Rights and Drought; published on 30 Jul 2025 by … Read more: 'That Suffering Haunts Me Even Here': The Struggle for Human Rights of the Antandroy … – ReliefWebContinue Reading

In a significant step toward strengthening their rights-based counter-terrorism (CT) practice, 20 officers from the Uganda Police Force (UPF) … Read more: Ugandan Police Officers participate in a Training on Human Rights and Gender Equality in …Continue Reading

The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, … Read more: Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation – HyperallergicContinue Reading

"Grindr bans 'no zionists' in bios, but still allows racist and fatphobic language'", July 28, 2025. Grindr has begun blocking users from … Read more: Grindr faces backlash over inconsistent discrimination policiesContinue Reading

… “Taking a Progressive and Decolonial Approach to Digital Ecosystems,” a resource that aims to guide civil society in developing a rights-based … Read more: New resource guides civil society on developing a rights-based framework for the digital ageContinue Reading

… human rights abuses. It was mid-July when the government in Athens made its own move. "The road to Greece is closing," Prime Minister Kyriakos … Read more: Greece claims 'invasion' in Crete as it tries to halt asylum on Med route – BBC NewsContinue Reading

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of … Read more: Iran: Proposed Cyber Bill Gives Authorities Sweeping New Powers to Block and Punish …Continue Reading

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for stronger action to stop the growth of transnational repression (TNR). Read more: Growth of foreign repression on UK soil going unchecked – JCHR report warnsContinue Reading

Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund supports small-scale farmers and expands nature corridors and habitats for tigers and other species in India's … Read more: Celebrating International Tiger Day – Amazon SustainabilityContinue Reading