Category: Human Rights

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Kazakhstan to act on the recommendations issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held on Thursday. The council, consisting of 103 state delegates, presented 294 recommendations covering a wide range of human rights concerns, including civil and political rights, gender-based […]

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the essence of commemorations was to acknowledge the past but they “must also examine the present and look to the future”. ‘Hateful rhetoric’ reverberating Underlying the rise of hateful rhetoric, with rising antisemitism on the streets and online, the UN rights […]

Mohammad Reza Faghihi, a prominent human rights lawyer and advocate, began serving a five-year prison sentence in Iran on January 21, 2025. Faghihi was convicted on charges of “gathering and collusion with the intention of acting against national security” following his involvement in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests that took place in late 2022. Faghihi, […]

Ethiopian authorities have come under heavy criticism for suspending two prominent human rights organizations, the Ethiopian Human Rights Council and the Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center, in December 2024. The move is part of an escalating government crackdown on civil society, which critics say reflects a broader pattern of increasing repression against independent organizations. In […]

An Ontario judge has condemned the provincial policy requiring routine strip-searches of youth detainees, calling it a violation of constitutional rights. Justice David Stewart Rose ruled on Tuesday that the two teenage girls charged in the 2022 death of Kenneth Lee had their charter rights infringed upon due to the invasive searches. He found the […]

The Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has condemned the ongoing detention of over 40 journalists by Myanmar’s military junta, urging the regime to release all media workers without delay or conditions. The call comes as the global media rights organization highlights the severe crackdown on press freedom since the military coup in February 2021, which ousted […]

UAE: 167 Nepali migrants die in UAE in past 6 months, according to Nepali embassy, amid hazardous working conditions. In the past six months, 167 Nepali migrant workers have died in the UAE, according to the Nepali Embassy in Abu Dhabi. This marks a worrying trend, with an average of 27 deaths per month — […]

UN Human Rights Chief Calls for Global Action Against Rising Intolerance on Holocaust Remembrance Day On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where over 7,000 prisoners were freed from the horrors of starvation and abuse, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, delivered a powerful message on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Reflecting […]

Mexico’s government has announced it will pursue legal action against the United States, citing two instances of human rights violations against deported immigrants. President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed Thursday that Mexican and Guatemalan nationals, recently returned to Mexico, had reported mistreatment by US authorities during their deportation process. According to Sheinbaum, both individuals, a Guatemalan woman […]

In a significant boost to recognizing transgender people’s rights, the Thai government announced this week that it will invest 145 million baht (US$4.3 million) in providing hormone therapy to transgender people. Thailand has a growing international reputation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, especially since it passed marriage equality last year. The country is […]