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Every year, the Charlottesville Human Rights Commission holds a meeting to pick focus areas for its work and to identify steps to achieve goals … Read more: Seeking feedback on most important human rights topic for 2024 – – CBS19 News –Continue Reading

On 7 February 2024, the Judge of Control of Salinas Cruz sentenced human rights defender David Hernández Salazar to 46 years and 6 months imprisonment … Read more: Mexico: Sentence against human rights defender David Hernández Salazar, member of the …Continue Reading

These rights are key for enabling civil society and peaceful protest movements to play their important role to ensure a just and sustainable peace and … Read more: Israel/oPt: Enabling human rights defenders and peaceful protests vital for achieving …Continue Reading

In June 2022, the government announced legislation to repeal the Human Rights Act, replacing it with a Bill of Rights Bill that would have … Read more: Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee Review of the United KingdomContinue Reading

Rocío San Miguel, a well-known human rights defender, was arbitrarily detained on 9 February 2024 at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela. Read more: Venezuela: Venezuelan human rights defender and her family arrestedContinue Reading

The whereabouts of prominent Venezuelan human rights attorney Rocío San Miguel, her daughter and ex-husband are unknown after they were detained … Read more: Prominent Venezuelan human rights attorney's whereabouts are unknown days after detentionContinue Reading

Prior to those appointments, he was Secretary-General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). He holds a LLM from Harvard University, … Read more: Olivier De Schutter | UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights by the …Continue Reading

A cash crunch and hiring freeze at the United Nations threaten to hinder UN human rights investigations in places like Sudan, Ukraine, and Syria. Read more: UN's Financial Troubles Jeopardize Critical Human Rights WorkContinue Reading

Jesse Quaye argued his human rights were breached by being denied a review of his minimum 15 year sentence for the murder of Connor Barrett at… Read more: Hemsby teen murderer wins sentence human rights appeal – Eastern Daily PressContinue Reading

Analysis in English on occupied Palestinian territory and 1 other country about Protection and Human Rights; published on 12 Feb 2024 by HRW. Read more: Human Rights Watch Briefing – Debate on Current Humanitarian Situation in Gaza (February 2024)Continue Reading

This is another show of the French police who trample human rights and crush them with a baton. Clashes ongoing between football fans and police … Read more: French police stomp human rights under batons – AzerNewsContinue Reading

… human rights internationally, Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights said. Following a Supreme Court ruling against the plan, the … Read more: Watch live: Rwanda policy debate after MPs warn bill flouts human rights lawContinue Reading

The whereabouts of a prominent human rights attorney, her daughter and ex-husband remain unknown, three days after Venezuelan authorities detained … Read more: Whereabouts of Venezuelan human rights attorney and her family remain unknown days …Continue Reading

On behalf of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, I am writing to you regarding the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) … Read more: Letter to UN Human Rights Council members on atrocity prevention priorities at the … – ReliefWebContinue Reading