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Human Rights Commission chief executive Meg de Ronde told Morning Report the commission is a Treaty based organisation and requires partnership … Read more: Human Rights Commission new leadership role honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi – chief executive – RNZContinue Reading

On Thursday, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP) and Human Rights Action Group formally submitted a request to the Canadian government … Read more: Forced labor fallout: Human rights groups urge Canada to sanction seven Chinese seafood …Continue Reading

Amnesty International is launching its annual global letter-writing campaign ahead of Human Rights Day on 10 December, in a bid to transform the … Read more: Amnesty International launches annual letter-writing campaign amid clampdown on human rightsContinue Reading

… human rights. But what do human rights have to do with the environment? Shannon Odell examines our right to a healthy environment, food, health … Read more: The rights you might not realize you have – Shannon Odell – YouTubeContinue Reading

The latest is a religion born 75 years ago this week — the religion of human rights. Sadly, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the manifest … Read more: Human rights died in Gaza – UnHerdContinue Reading

This year saw a 30 percent drop from the five-year annual average in persons sanctioned for their involvement in human rights abuse or corruption; the … Read more: Use of Magnitsky Sanctions by U.S. Government Declines – Human Rights FirstContinue Reading

75 years on, the world is tested and tormented by an agonising array of conflicts in which human rights violations are not secondary outcomes, but … Read more: Still relevant: the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human RightsContinue Reading

The director of English PEN on the erosion of civil liberties, protecting free speech and calling for a ceasefire. Read more: The Policy Ask with Daniel Gorman: “We are in a human rights emergency”Continue Reading

ANKARA. Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said that Israel's deadly strikes on journalists in Lebanon were an “apparently deliberate attack on … Read more: Israeli strikes on journalists in Lebanon 'apparently deliberate': Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

File photograph Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a statement condemning Sri Lanka's arrest of 9 Tamils in Batticaloa under the Prevention of … Read more: Human Rights Watch condemns arrest of Tamils under PTA during Maaveerar NaalContinue Reading

He's refusing to express confidence in Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt, and while he won't abolish the commission like ACT wants, … Read more: Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith refuses to express confidence in Chief Human Rights … – RNZContinue Reading

Evidence reviewed by Human Rights Watch indicates that the Israeli military knew or should have known that the group of people they were firing on … Read more: Israel: Strikes on Journalists in Lebanon Apparently Deliberate – Human Rights WatchContinue Reading

Those are the words at the heart of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Delegates from around the world defined the rights in the Universal … Read more: Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Human Rights Leaders Before Their MeetingContinue Reading

They endorsed a bill of rights for humanity, in the form of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The handiwork of Eleanor Roosevelt and a … Read more: The UN Declaration of Human Rights at 75: An Unfinished RevolutionContinue Reading