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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

Today, the country faces widespread human rights abuses such as gun violence, police brutality, torture in private prisons, racial conflicts and … Read more: Washington is the biggest democracy destroyer and human rights violator in the worldContinue Reading

Iowa lawmakers have declined to advance a bill that would have stripped "gender identity" from the state's civil rights law. Read more: Move to strip gender identity from Iowa's civil rights law rejected by legislators – PBSContinue Reading

… after attacking him for seeking re-election, human rights violations and more. Read more: El Salvador's Bukele responds to Democratic lawmakers attacking him for human rights …Continue Reading

… Human Rights on the Human Rights Situation of People affected by the Conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Karabakh region”, following … Read more: EU Statements at the Council of Europe in January 2024 | EEAS – European UnionContinue Reading

Those who didn't fit into the subcommittee hearing room chanted, “Trans rights are human rights,” out in the hallway. Several transgender Iowans … Read more: Lawmakers kill bill that would remove gender identity from Iowa Civil Rights ActContinue Reading