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The U.S. Education Department is opening a civil rights investigation into Columbia University after Palestinian students and their allies filed a … Read more: Palestinian students' complaint against Columbia sparks DOE civil rights investigationContinue Reading

In particular, Russia promised to ratify, within three years, the 6th Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibiting the death … Read more: Capital Punishment in Vladimir Putin's Russia – Human Rights FoundationContinue Reading

Human rights group Asylum Aid on Friday said it will file a court challenge to the British government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, … Read more: Human rights group to sue Britain over Rwanda migration policy – VOAContinue Reading

On 9 December 2023, Chhattisgarh police arrested four human rights defenders: Lakhma Koram, Ranu Podyam, Shankar Kashyap, and Samlu Koram. Read more: Arrest and detention of four indigenous human rights defenders in Bastar District, ChhattisgarhContinue Reading

The 4 individuals sanctioned today for egregious human rights abuses against Palestinian communities are: Noam Federman: a radical settler activist … Read more: UK sanctions extremist groups and individuals for settler violence in the West BankContinue Reading

Anar Mammadli, prominent human rights defender and member of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, was arrested on 29 April in Baku. According … Read more: Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum urgently call for unconditional … – EU NEIGHBOURS eastContinue Reading

Why Tinubu Should Prioritise Respect For Human Rights – PLAC ED | Inside Sources. 120 views · 48 minutes ago #ChannelsTv #newsupdate #news …more … Read more: Why Tinubu Should Prioritise Respect For Human Rights – PLAC ED | Inside SourcesContinue Reading

Ms Justice Niamh Hyland directed that the hearing of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commissions' (IHREC's) case will go ahead as planned at the … Read more: Human rights body's case around homeless male asylum seekers to proceed this monthContinue Reading

Luise Amtsberg, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office, … Read more: Statement by Human Rights Commissioner Luise Amtsberg on the occasion of World Press …Continue Reading

Human rights attorney and former Herald columnist Horacio Méndez Carreras died on Monday, April 29, at the age of 86. Read more: Human rights lawyer and former Herald writer Horacio Méndez Carreras dies at 86Continue Reading

Women human rights defenders and protestors Zholia Parsi, Neda Parwani, Parisa Azada, and Manizha Seddiqi have been released after several months … Read more: Afghanistan: Further information: Four women protestors released: Zholia Parsi, Neda …Continue Reading

A Saudi court has recently sentenced women's rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi to 11 years in prison in a "secret hearing", according to two human … Read more: Saudi court 'secretly' hands 11-year sentence to women's rights activist – France 24Continue Reading

Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, urged authorities to talk to members of civil society and journalists who are at risk of … Read more: UN human rights chief urges Georgia to withdraw 'foreign agents' bill – VOAContinue Reading

"Advancing accountability is essential to upholding the human rights of the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and victims in and … Read more: Accountability is needed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, says UN – YouTubeContinue Reading