Category: Human Rights

(São Paulo) – Brazilian authorities should thoroughly investigate all those who have incited, financed, or committed acts of violence in an attempt to negate election results, Human Rights Watch said today when releasing its World Report 2023. The effort to negate election results culminated in the January 8, 2023 attack on democratic institutions in Brasilia. President […]

[11/January/2023] SANA’A January 11. 2023 (Saba) – Minister of Human Rights Ali Al-Dailami, met here on Wednesday, with Deputy Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Yemen Ralph Wahba. In the meeting, the Minister of Human Rights reviewed the conditions of the Yemenis who are being held in the Saudi […]

In a statement released by his spokesman Stephan Dujarric, Guterres urged Peruvian authorities to ensure respect and to conduct a “diligent, independent, impartial and transparent investigation into allegations of excessive use of force and human rights violations.” Demonstrations must be carried out peacefully, respecting life, public and private property, the UNSG insisted. Shortly earlier, the […]

In the world of human rights advocacy, Harvard appointing Roth would have been entirely uncontroversial. Though he certainly has made enemies over the years — often governments that his former organization shamed for human rights violations — the fact that he’s qualified to serve as a senior fellow at a center dedicated to human rights […]

By Stephanie Taylor THE CANADIAN PRESS Jennifer Moore Rattray OTTAWA- The federal government announced Tuesday it was appointing a ministerial special representative who will be tasked with providing recommendations for the creation of an Indigenous and human rights ombudsperson role. At at evening news conference, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said Jennifer Moore Rattray, the […]

TEHRAN- Former Iranian judicial officer Hamid Nouri, 61, who has been unlawfully jailed in Sweden, has criticized a new trial that has been initiated against him, asserting that he would not participate in the “unfair” process as long as his issues are unresolved. A fresh set of trial hearings for Nouri, who was detained upon […]

ASTANA. KAZINFORM – Starting January 1, 2023, the Constitutional Court began its work in Kazakhstan, an initiative spearheaded by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his address to the nation on March 16, 2022. The court was established with the idea of expanding human rights mechanisms by giving citizens an opportunity to appeal directly to the court. […]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the Russian government must pay a total of 15,000 euros (about $16,120) to Novaya Gazeta in compensation for declaring multiple articles published by the newspaper to be libel. The articles in question include a story about the possible ties between Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin and […]

The UN rights chief warned Wednesday that a new US border enforcement plan risks undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law. “The right to seek asylum is a human right, no matter a person’s origin, immigration status, nor how they arrived at an international border,” the United Nations’ High Commissioner for […]

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