U.S. officials to host Seoul workshop focused on North Korea's human rights violations
Two U.S. officials will co-host an international workshop in South Korea that will examine human-rights violations by North ...
Tibetan group in India protests against China and human rights situation in homeland
Dozens of Tibetans living in India protested outside China’s embassy against the human rights situation in their homeland, ...
US opts out of running for reelection on UN Human Rights Council
The Biden administration has decided not to seek a second consecutive term on the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council ...
Human rights museum marks anniversary after 10 years of learning amid protest
Whether the words are spoken inside or outside the building's walls, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has been a home to ...
Coral reef destruction a threat to human rights, say researchers
A human rights-based approach to coral reef protection could ensure governments are held to account for safeguarding marine ...
Palestinian, Filipino and Mozambican activists and a London research agency given human rights award
The Right Livelihood Award has been given to activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique as ...
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Submission to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the lack of independence in the work of Rwanda’s National Commission for Human ...
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Palestinian activists and UK research agency among human rights award recipients
Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honours efforts that the Swedish-German prize founder felt were being ...
Key to Korean unification is human rights, say policy experts, activists
The key to achieving unification of the Korean Peninsula is human rights, policy experts and activists said Friday, as they criticized decades of failed government efforts centered on denuclearization ...
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UN agencies call on Security Council to protect the human rights of migrants
The United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated on Tuesday that urgent action from the UN Security ...
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Human Rights Watch: Season 2 of Rights & Wrongs Podcast
The second season of Human Rights Watch’s biweekly podcast, Rights & Wrongs, will begin on September 23, 2024, with an ...
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Walz is right: ‘This is basic human rights’
“But those things are being proposed, and the catch-all on this is, ‘Well, the states will decide. What’s right for Texas might not be right for Washington.’ That’s not how this works,” Walz said.