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Congress is right to invoke Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act to ask serious questions about Azerbaijan's human rights and civilian … Read more: Cassidy, Markey, Colleagues Introduce Resolution Demanding Answers on Azerbaijan's …Continue Reading

The Human Rights Defenders Protection Act will help elevate, guide, and enhance U.S. efforts to support these courageous individuals globally at a … Read more: Murphy, Cardin, Colleagues Introduce Legislation To Protect Human Rights Defenders WorldwideContinue Reading

Varadkar says EU-Israel relations are founded on an agreement which has a human rights clause and 'a lot of us believe that Israel may be in … Read more: Taoiseach questions EU-Israel agreement due to fears of human rights breachContinue Reading

“The Human Rights Defender Protection Act strengthens the State Department's ability to safeguard human rights, stand up to authoritarianism, and … Read more: Markey Joins Chair Cardin in Introducing Legislation to Protect Human Rights Defenders WorldwideContinue Reading

… human rights violations, including enforced disappearance, torture and other-ill treatment. He must be immediately and unconditionally released … Read more: Egypt: Further information: Tortured student denied usable prosthetic leg: Oqba HashadContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch Daily Brief · Advice for Car Buyers · Quick Takes: Sudan; Gaza; Italy/Albania; Spyware · Readers' Recommendations · Weekly Quiz! Read more: Is Your Car Driving Repression? – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

Expressing deep concern, the Human Rights Council-appointed experts highlighted the alarming toll on journalists and media workers in the Occupied … Read more: Gaza: UN rights experts condemn 'killing and silencing' of journalists – UN NewsContinue Reading

Iowa lawmakers declined to advance a bill that would have stripped gender identity from the state's civil rights law, a proposal that opponents … Read more: Iowa legislators reject move to strip gender identity from state's civil rights law – NBC NewsContinue Reading

KATHMANDU – With no government initiative to implement its recommendations, the National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday made public a list of … Read more: Constitutional watchdog names 60 persons implicated in serious human rights abusesContinue Reading

UN human rights experts are reviewing a gagging order sought by Surrey Police against Farnborough Airport protester Colin Shearn from Tilford. Read more: UN human rights experts probing Surrey Police action against Farnborough Airport campaignerContinue Reading

… human rights of the Uyghur people during a Jan. 31 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee with executives from a number of social media … Read more: TikTok CEO Dodges Questions on Chinese Human Rights Violations in Senate HearingContinue Reading

In connection with its Universal Periodic Review, the CCP regime mobilized fake “experts” to “applaud China's achievements in human rights … Read more: China's Own Propaganda Side Event at the UN Human Rights Council – Bitter WinterContinue Reading

The “Sinicization” of religions, however, goes beyond controlling the appearance, number, location and size of religious venues, Human Rights Watch … Read more: China: Religious Regulations Tighten for Uyghurs – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

In the wake of interim orders made by the International Court of Justice on 26 January 2024, the Human Rights Law Centre calls for the Australian … Read more: ICJ South Africa v. Israel: Human Rights Law Centre statementContinue Reading