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… civil society organizations and human rights defenders. HRF emphasized the regime's negligence in preventing forced disappearances, as well as its … Read more: HRF Brings UN Attention to Rights Abuses in Four Countries – Human Rights FoundationContinue Reading

The Rana Plaza tragedy fueled a global movement calling for mandatory human rights rules for businesses, which ultimately led the European Union in … Read more: Germany's Social Democrats Should Defend EU Supply Chains LawsContinue Reading

Sundance Film Festival award winner 'Life After' and 'Free Leonard Peltier' highlight ACT Human Rights Film Festival this week at The Lyric and … Read more: ACT Human Rights Film Festival runs through Sunday at Lyric, CSU – The ColoradoanContinue Reading

Civil rights laws were written to address racism and marginalization. They are grounded in the blood, sacrifice, and struggle of Americans focused on … Read more: Civil Rights Organizations Demand Department of Justice and Civil Rights Division Uphold …Continue Reading

… Rights Day in Managua, Nicaragua, which has received 279 human riots recommendations by the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review process. Read more: CPJ, others urge the Nicaraguan government to resume cooperation with the UN Human …Continue Reading

Instead, the latest work from Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins trains its lens on a family with deep roots in the American civil rights … Read more: A civil rights leader's family airs its dirty laundry on Broadway in 'Purpose' – NPRContinue Reading

… human rights in Iran. CHRI investigates and documents rights violations occurring throughout Iran, relying on first-hand accounts to expose abuses … Read more: Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution IntensifiesContinue Reading

This paper presents the findings of a cross sectional household survey conducted among Palestinians living in the Israeli occupied West Bank to … Read more: Measuring human rights violations from an ecological perspective with a locally generated instrumentContinue Reading

I condemn the attack by the Israeli army on a medical and emergency convoy on 23 March resulting in the killing of 15 medical personnel and … Read more: Comment by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on the killing of Gaza humanitarian …Continue Reading

Summary executions and the torture and mistreatment of prisoners of war must end. I call on the Russian Federation to respect the human rights of … Read more: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk Update to the Human …Continue Reading

… human rights. Parents who hope legal action will force the government to reinstate the VAT exemption that was removed at the start of this year … Read more: Could UK's imposition of VAT on private schools be stopped by court fight?Continue Reading

The purpose of this document is to highlight the ongoing grave human rights abuses, including mass atrocity crimes, in Ethiopia since the ACHPR's last … Read more: Joint NGO Submission to the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human …Continue Reading

Dear Secretary-General Guterres: We write to underscore our concerns about the Human Rights Council's (HRC) overwhelming and disproportionate focus on … Read more: Mast, Risch Threaten Sanctions if UN Human Rights Council Creates Special Powers to Target IsraelContinue Reading

“The human rights dimensions of peace will be better addressed if appropriate multilateral organisations are deeply engaged,” O'Flaherty believes. Read more: he Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has called for human rights issues to …Continue Reading