Category: Human Rights

Campaigners from Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Chad and Venezuela on Thursday won the Martin Ennals Award, one of the world’s most prestigious human rights prizes, with the jury hailing their “courage”. The winners are Khurram Parvez, a prominent rights activist in IIOJK; Delphine Djiraibe, one of Chad’s first women lawyers; and Feliciano Reyna, […]

From Noah Ebije, Kaduna The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has concluded arrangements to host all governorship candidates of Kaduna State to a Town Hall debate early next month. According to a statement signed by the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu, the Town Hall debate is necessary because 2023 elections present a major opportunity […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion News Columnists Alberta Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks with media at McDougall Centre in Calgary on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. Gavin Young/Postmedia Article content COVID, COVID, we’re not finished with COVID. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content The government led by Premier […]

LONDON :A Uyghur rights group’s legal challenge against the British government for failing to investigate the import of cotton produced in the Chinese region of Xinjiang was dismissed by a London court on Friday. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international organisation of exiled Uyghur groups, had taken legal action at London’s High Court against […]

A campaigner from Chad is among three campaigners from Kashmir and Venezuela to win the Martin Ennals Award with the jury hailing their ‘courage’. The annual Martin Ennals Award, named after the first secretary-general of Amnesty International, was first given in 1994. The jury comprises representatives from 10 leading human rights organisations, including Amnesty and […]

Police in Mwanza have arrested 40-year-old Jasiya Meleka on suspicion of human trafficking. According to Mwanza police publicist Edwin Kaunda, Meleka was intercepted at a roadblock on Thursday with eight Malawians believed to be enroute to South Africa. “We intercepted the suspect on Thursday at our roadblock with some eight Malawians who we believe were […]

Geneva: Members of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child hailed the progress made by Oman in the field of child rights. The global appreciation was based on the report submitted to the committee and the replies given by the Omani delegation during the elaboration on the national report on child rights. […]

WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference Education Fund — joined by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) — held a press briefing to discuss urgent education priorities for 2023. The civil rights community detailed threats and opportunities […]

The right to life is a fundamental human right enshrined under article 32 of the Constitution of Bangladesh. But this right requires other supplementary elements associated with it to be fulfilled, like a healthy environment. Due to rapid industrialisation in urban areas, the quality of air is however worsening now-a-days. Dhaka has recently been ranked […]

The Alabama Power Service Organization planned two service projects on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to commemorate the 1963 civil rights events in Birmingham that changed the face of the city, and the world, in the ongoing struggle for equality and human rights. The federal holiday celebrates the life and legacy of the great civil […]