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If you experience discrimination, you can address it directly or make a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission. Read more: About making a complaint – Australian Human Rights CommissionContinue Reading

Posters urging for a ceasefire hang from the former Minneapolis police third precinct on March 1, 2024. Image by Chad Davis via Wikimedia Commons. Read more: Digital Ceasefire Initiative – Berkeley Human Rights CenterContinue Reading

Leaders from the European Union (EU) and the US issued a strong joint statement Thursday condemning the recent crackdown on opposition activists … Read more: EU and US leaders condemn human rights violations in Georgia as UK sanctions officialsContinue Reading

In a resolution passed with 434 votes in favour, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) highlighted alleged rights violations in Azerbaijan … Read more: European Parliament condemns Azerbaijan human rights breaches – JURIST – NewsContinue Reading

Analysis in English on Sudan about Food and Nutrition, Gender and more; published on 20 Dec 2024 by OHCHR. Read more: Under siege: the situation of human rights in El Fasher, North Darfur since May 2024Continue Reading

6555 likes, 1128 comments – cnn on December 18, 2024: "Iran's most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, … Read more: Iran's most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges …Continue Reading

The Department of State is today imposing sanctions on four entities that have transported Iranian oil and identifying six vessels as their … Read more: Sanctioning Iran's Oil Trade, Support for Proxies and Partners, and Violations of Human RightsContinue Reading

Drug dealers, murderers and sexual offenders routinely cite European conventions to avoid deportation – here are just a few of them. Read more: The foreign criminals using human rights to stay in Britain – The TelegraphContinue Reading

Date/Time: Tuesday 11 February 2025, 10:00 – 17:00 CETVenue: Room XX, Palais des Nations, GenevaThe 2025 Intersessional Meeting is the seventh in … Read more: Seventh Intersessional Meeting on human rights and the 2030 Agenda – 11 February 2025Continue Reading

Today, the United States is taking action to stem the flow of revenue that the Iranian regime uses to support terrorism abroad, … Read more: Sanctioning Entities Engaged in Transporting Iranian Oil and Violations of Human RightsContinue Reading

BackgroundPursuant to resolution 54/16, adopted by the Human Rights Council on 12 October 2023, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human … Read more: Call for input: An update to the technical guidance on the application of a human rights …Continue Reading

Occupied El Aaiun, December 19, 2024 (SPS) – The Coordination Mechanism for Human Rights Action in the occupied territories of Western Sahara … Read more: Coordination Mechanism for Human Rights Action expresses solidarity with Moroccan …Continue Reading

“What we have found is that the Israeli government is intentionally killing Palestinians in Gaza by denying them the water that they need to survive,” … Read more: Israel committing 'acts of genocide' by cutting off water in Gaza, HRW says – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

I declare interests as an officer of the all-party groups on Hong Kong, the Uighurs, and Freedom of Religion or Belief, and as a patron of Hong Kong … Read more: China: Human Rights and Security – HansardContinue Reading