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… human rights. Book cover of 'The Friction Project'. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things … Read more: Best summer books of 2024: Business – Financial TimesContinue Reading

The motion, introduced by Don Davies of the New Democratic Party (NDP), urges the government to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act by including caste … Read more: Canadian Parliament Debates Motion to Prohibit Caste Discrimination as Human Rights IssueContinue Reading

… right at the Tory base. Today, Farage launches his “contract” with … Human Rights, scrapping net zero, freezing “non-essential” immigration … Read more: UK election: It's the Nigel Farage Show — latest updates – POLITICO.euContinue Reading

FIFA must ensure that bids to host the 2030 and 2034 men's World Cup tournaments fully safeguard human rights and reject any offer that risks … Read more: Global: FIFA must protect human rights by securing binding safeguards from 2030 and 2034 …Continue Reading

To mark this day, the Department of Education's (ED) Office for Civil Rights … Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and … Rights Act prohibits … Read more: FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Counter Islamophobia | The White HouseContinue Reading

Cambodian authorities have often previously charged human rights activists with incitement, which is punishable by two years in prison. In 2021, the … Read more: Cambodia: Drop Charges Against Environmental Activists – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

With Roe v Wade overturned, we must ensure that every woman can enjoy reproductive rights in both the U.S. and Canada. Read more: Access to abortion is not just a matter of health, it is a matter of basic human rightsContinue Reading

The regime introduces human rights and environmental due diligence obligations for in-scope companies' and their subsidiaries' operations and in their … Read more: European Union Finally Adopts Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive | 06 | 2024Continue Reading

These needs include food, shelter, education, healthcare and freedom from persecution and discrimination. Through the Universal Declaration of Human … Read more: RightsED: Child Rights – Australian Human Rights CommissionContinue Reading

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Hundreds of human rights protesters and pro-China supporters have gathered outside Parliament House in anticipation of the arrival of Chinese … Read more: Human rights protesters and supporters greet Chinese Premier Li Qiang – The AustralianContinue Reading

CIVICUS discusses a recent Indian Supreme Court ruling on climate change and human rights with Arpitha Kodiveri, an environmental law and justice … Read more: The Supreme Court said the constitutional right to life includes the right to a healthy environmentContinue Reading

The concept of apartheid on the grounds of gender was first articulated by Afghan women human rights defenders and feminist allies in response to the … Read more: Global: Gender apartheid must be recognized as a crime under international lawContinue Reading

A human rights-based approach to prostitution must begin with the premise that women and girls have a right not to be prostituted, a right to … Read more: Prostitution: Righting a Wrong at the UN – PassBlueContinue Reading