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As you will know, as the statutory regulator for equality in Scotland, the Equality and Human Rights Commission promotes and enforces compliance with … Read more: Our letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care | EHRCContinue Reading

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to both Health Secretary Neil Gray and NHS Fife to demand a meeting about whether they are … Read more: SNP Government and NHS Fife face human rights watchdog probe over Sandie Peggie failingsContinue Reading

Last year, I taught a 10-week Masters seminar called 'Women's Rights as Human Rights?' to around 28 students. I retained the rather formulaic … Read more: ChatGPT in the Classroom: Creating Spaces for Critical Reflection – EJIL: Talk!Continue Reading

… Human Rights council. America's Role in Defending Religious Freedom and Human Rights. The United States has long been the world's strongest voice … Read more: Statement: On the U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council – Justice For AllContinue Reading

A “Training on Monitoring Places of Detention” took place on 18-19 February 2025 in Ankara, aiming to strengthen the expertise of staff from the … Read more: Human Rights and Equality Institution Strengthen Capacity in Effective Monitoring of …Continue Reading

News and Press Release in English on Guatemala about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding and Protection and Human Rights; published on 20 Feb 2025 by … Read more: EU Special Representative for Human Rights visits Guatemala – ReliefWebContinue Reading

Pakhshan Azizi, a humanitarian worker and human rights defender from Iran's Kurdish minority, is in grave danger of execution. Read more: Iran: Kurdish human rights activist faces execution – Amnesty International CanadaContinue Reading

Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who calls himself an advocate for Sikh rights, has refused to take up the issue of the alleged … Read more: 'Nothing To Do With Civil Rights Of Sikhs': SFJ's Pannun Exclusive – YouTubeContinue Reading

The government has a duty to ensure that journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society can work freely, without fear of intimidation or … Read more: "Release them now!": Joint statement on the detention of Turkish journalists – FIDHContinue Reading

Donate to protect human rights. Women's Day protest in Mexico. Together we can fight for human rights everywhere. Your donation can transform the … Read more: Ukraine: Ukrainian Nursery Teacher Jailed By Russia: Olha Baranevska – Amnesty InternationalContinue Reading

Helena Kennedy, chair of the panel of legal experts on media freedom and director of the International Bar Assn.'s Human Rights Institute, will give a … Read more: CPH:DOX Summit to Consider Media Accessibility as a Human Right – VarietyContinue Reading

The legislation charged the department with compiling incidents of civil rights violations, including verbal threats, and “prepare a report each … Read more: Free speech concerns raised over MN civil rights data collection – Session DailyContinue Reading

Human Rights Council Fifty-eighth session 24 February–4 April 2025. Agenda item 2. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human … Read more: Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and …Continue Reading

Meeta Anand is the senior director of the census & data equity program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. … Civil and Human … Read more: Disappearing Data: Why We Must Stop Trump's Attempts to Erase Our CommunitiesContinue Reading