Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human…
The United Nations rests on three equally important and interdependent pillars: sustainable development, peace and security, and human rights. In…
Atleast 196 land and environmental defenders were killed last year while trying to protect the planet from extractive industries, according…
For most of human history human rights did not exist. The struggle to secure them arguably began in 1215 with…
Protests and bloodshed have toppled Sheikh Hasina’s regime, but the way forward is far from certain. Here are four possible…
An Israeli airstrike on the refugee encampment at Tal al-Sultan, in the Gaza Strip, resulted in the death of at…
Climate change has not traditionally been seen as a health and human rights concern — but that may be changing…
In its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the US State Department said on Monday, 22 April, that there were…
When Myanmar’s military seized back control of the country in February 2021 after a decade-long democratic interlude, the international community reached for…
Neurotechnologies – devices that interact directly with the brain or nervous system – were once dismissed as the stuff of…
Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a newly released census compiled by…
About 1 in 100 Gazans have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Palestinian Ministry…
The world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international…
Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United…
The indigenous peoples’ engagements with forests are based on respect, responsibility, trust and relationships whereas the modern, post-colonial protected areas…
One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly,…
“Woman, Life, Freedom,” the slogan adopted by Iranians to protest the unjust death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, is, according…
Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the…
Mass atrocities are once again plaguing the people of Darfur, Sudan, with talk of a genocide taking place. Twenty years…
For more than three decades, China has struggled to contain criticism of its human rights record. It faced a storm…
The US and other democratic nations have weaponised border security to undermine human rights – and ultimately democracy – through…
By 1900, the internal combustion engine was hailed as a way to clean up the world’s city streets, then heaped…
India’s revised surrogacy law has been praised for outlawing commercial surrogacy, but it has also been criticised for restricting who…
Condemning and strongly rejecting any advocacy and manifestation of religious hatred, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted…
When banks hit a crisis, their safety net is the trust of their community. But trust is earned, not given,…
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