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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

Human Rights Watch interviewed six witnesses to the attack, three people who assisted the injured, and several residents of Gao. Witnesses said the … Read more: Mali: Armed Islamist Attack on Convoy Kills 34 Civilians | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

On February 15, Muhsin Hendricks, an openly gay imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT rights activist was shot and killed in Gqeberha, South Africa as he … Read more: Openly Gay Imam Gunned Down in South Africa | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

Everyone deserves to live without fear of intimidation and to be protected from racism and violence. That's why a human-rights based response is … Read more: How new hate speech laws impact your rightsContinue Reading

Parading coffins of dead hostages in Gaza a violation of international law, says UN human rights official … The public parading of deceased hostages' … Read more: Parading coffins of dead hostages in Gaza a violation of international law, says UN human …Continue Reading