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The Kirkwood Human Rights Commission is once again sponsoring an essay contest for high school juniors in public, private and home schools within … Read more: Feb. 16 Deadline For Kirkwood Human Rights Commission Essay Contest | Webster …Continue Reading

A White House order suspending funding for U.S. foreign assistance programs is already affecting North Korean human rights organizations, … Read more: US pause on foreign aid already affecting North Korean human rights groups | NK NewsContinue Reading

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor expressed "deep concern" Sunday over US President Donald Trump's proposal to resettle Gazans in Jordan and Egypt … Read more: Trump's call to 'clean out' Gaza serves as 'explicit support for Israel's crime of genocide': Rights groupContinue Reading

United Nations human rights experts and activists have condemned the arrest of a prominent Palestinian journalist in the Swiss city of Zurich, saying … Read more: UN experts slam Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah's arrest in Switzerland – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch analysis of the state budget over the past five years found that education spending declined from 2.3 percent of GDP in 2020/2021 ( … Read more: Egypt: Declining Funding Undermines Education – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

Several human rights organisations have sounded the alarm in recent years at what they say is a sharp rise in the targeting of those showing … Read more: Bulgarian police 'blocked rescue' of teenage migrants who froze to death – The GuardianContinue Reading

Libyan authorities' accelerating targeting and harassment of activists and members of non-governmental organizations risks completely closing the … Read more: Libya: Civic Space Crushed | Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

It also ensures that human rights are respected and the rule of law is followed in accordance with the laid down principles. Tanzania is among the 195 … Read more: Celebrating 40 years of peace and human rights advocacy | The Guardian – IPPmediaContinue Reading

On this day, 80 years ago, some 7,000 prisoners who had been left to starve in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps were … Read more: 'We have a duty to stand against intolerance': UN human rights chief | UN NewsContinue Reading

Global NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has in its World Report 2025 slammed Australian state and territory governments for human rights violations … Read more: Australian governments exposed for human rights violations on youth detention – WSWSContinue Reading

Advancing the Human Rights and Environment Agenda · 29 January 2025 · 30 January 2025 · 28 January 2025 · 6 February 2025 … Read more: Environment: What's Up in GENeva | 27 January – 2 February 2025Continue Reading

… human rights, including the freedoms of expression and religion or belief, as well as the rights of persons belonging to minorities, must and will … Read more: Statement International Holocaust Remembrance Day – European CommissionContinue Reading

This year, we honored Clare Byarugaba, one of the few human rights activists publicly demanding rights for LGBTQI+. Read more: We protected refugees and asylum seekers – Human Rights FirstContinue Reading

… rights, raising questions both business and financial transparency. 2. Human Rights Violations and Ethnic Targeting. President Mohamud's … Read more: Open Letter to the International Community: Somalia's Money Laundering, Human … – Horn ObserverContinue Reading