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… Human Rights. Before joining the Foreign Service, Sheikh worked both as a banker and a broadcaster. He was educated at Punjab University in Lahore … Read more: Pakistani envoy defends human rights record, urges closer US ties – Washington DiplomatContinue Reading

The ratification of the constitutional reform to Article 248 puts the protection of human rights in El Salvador at risk. Read more: El Salvador: Ratification of the constitutional reform deepens the risk of human rights abusesContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch operates in over 100 countries, where we work to investigate and document human rights abuses, expose the truth and hold … Read more: HRW Oral Statement on DR Congo at the 37th Special Session of the Human Rights CouncilContinue Reading

"We call on our 125 states parties, civil society, and all nations of the world to stand united for justice and fundamental human rights," added the … Read more: ICC Condemns Trump Sanctions as UN Human Rights Office Demands ReversalContinue Reading

… human rights record. The clothes company, founded in China but now headquartered in Singapore, has been criticised over its environmental impact … Read more: TfL urged to ban Shein from advertising on network over human rights abusesContinue Reading

In 2021, the US passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, prohibiting the import of goods from Xinjiang. Human rights organisations, however, … Read more: Business and human rights: growing pressure to root out modern slavery in supply chainsContinue Reading

In a hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, human rights organizations denounced the continued repression and persecution by the (…) Read more: Sustained persecution and extraterritorial repression: human rights organizations denounce … – FIDHContinue Reading

… human rights standards within the facility. The Turks and Caicos Islands Human Rights Commission (TCIHRC) carried out a scheduled review of His … Read more: Human Rights Commission recognises effort during review at His Majesty's PrisonContinue Reading

The U.N.'s top human rights body has condemned Rwanda's support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ordered a team of experts … Read more: UN rights body condemns Rwanda and the rebels it backs in neighboring Congo. Violence …Continue Reading

Judge dreadfulALMOST every day brings further evidence of judges no longer fit for purpose.Some are liberal to an extreme bordering on madness . Read more: The Human Rights Act has established Britain as a dumping-ground for world's criminals … – The SunContinue Reading

The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses … Read more: Worst may be coming in east Congo conflict, says UN rights head | ReutersContinue Reading

The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its thirty-seventh special session on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of … Read more: AFTERNOON – Human Rights Council Establishes Fact-Finding Mission on Human Rights …Continue Reading

The signatory organisations are deeply concerned about the human rights violations committed against the civilian population of the Democratic … Read more: Eastern DRC: the international community must act to address the massive human rights violationsContinue Reading

JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar informed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday that … Read more: Israel withdraws from UN human rights body – XinhuaContinue Reading