Category: Human Rights

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz celebrated the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Monday by hosting an educational workshop and basketball clinic for 50 middle school students. Students from across the state had a chance to make new friends and solve problems together. They also had a chance to practice Dr. King’s […]

Tehran, SANA- Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Monday denounced the UK and some European countries over their reaction to Iran’s execution of its national Alireza Akbari who had been sentenced to death over spying for the United Kingdom. “The UK move against Iran’s national security received Iran’s firm intelligence and judicial response,” Kanaani […]

Sarah Mardini and Sean Binder were thrown in jail on baseless charges for helping rescue migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea in August 2018. Four years and four months later, they and 22 other defendants in the “largest case of criminalization of solidarity in Europe” finally had their day in court. While the […]

Police patrol in Harare, Zimbabwe, January 20, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo ZLHR speaks after reports that Kudzai Kadzere was assaulted with “truncheons and fists” on Saturday while he was attending to opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials who were detained at Budiriro 2 Police Station. Kadzere spoke to the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) and confirmed […]

(Bangkok) – Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn) is committing extortion, arbitrary arrests, and harassment of Rohingya refugees already facing violence from criminal gangs and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Donor governments should press the Bangladesh authorities to investigate alleged abuses against Rohingya living in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, ensure that victims have […]

Monday, January 16, 2023, marks 17 years since Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in as Africa’s first female President. In recognition of this momentous achievement, in 2016, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) designated January 16 as Human Rights Day, to be observed in the region annually in honor of former President […]

Russia deported from 260,000 to almost 700,000 minor Ukrainians. Most were relocated with their legal representatives. This was said during the presentation of the analytical report on the deportation of Ukrainian citizens to Russia and Belarus, Censor.NET reports with reference to the Pravda. According to Russian sources, more than 4 million Ukrainians are currently in […]

(CBS DETROIT) – The oldest polar bear in human care has died at the age of 33, Kansas City Zoo officials announced.  Berlin, the oldest polar bear in human care, has died at the age of 33. Kansas City Zoo Berlin was born at the Cincinnati Zoo on Dec. 11, 1989, a short time after […]

Hard Rock International marked January 11 as the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day by expanding action to strengthen the industry’s role in combating and preventing human trafficking.  Human trafficking, which includes commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor, is “a complex challenge for the entire global hospitality industry because it intersects a range of organized criminal […]

Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): Human Right Focus Pakistan condemned the murder of a Christian minor girl, who was kidnapped while coming back from the hospital, and urged authorities to bring justice to the victim and her father, according to the statement released by HRFP. The victim was identified as Gulnaz, who was kidnapped on […]