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Hengaw: Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights held a specialized seminar on the human rights situation in Iran on Saturday, … Read more: Human Rights in Iran: Hengaw holds expert seminar in OsloContinue Reading

Detained immigrant students sent to remote Louisiana facilities accused of human rights abuses. The students have been sent across the country to … Read more: Detained students sent to remote ICE facilities in Louisiana accused of human rights abusesContinue Reading

The UN high commissioner for human rights on Tuesday strongly condemned a March 23 attack by the Israeli army on a medical and emergency convoy in … Read more: UN human rights chief condemns killing of Gaza humanitarian workers by Israeli armyContinue Reading

This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the U.S., UK, EU, Canadian, and Australian governments' use of targeted human rights … Read more: GLOBAL MAGNITSKY AND RELATED SANCTIONS: Semi-Annual Update March 2025Continue Reading

The grim revelation emerged during a high-level discussion at the UN in Geneva on the human rights situation in DRC. ​​The Council – the UN's foremost … Read more: DR Congo: Surging violence as armed groups target civilians in the east, Human Rights …Continue Reading

… 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