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,…
Source: AP, PTI Taliban restrictions on Afghan women and girls may amount to femicide if they are not reversed, a…
Source: PTI The UN Security Council has unanimously condemned the decision by the Taliban to ban Afghan women from working…
Leaders and authorities recently gathered in New York for the first UN water conference in decades. The hope was that…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has suspended the environmental clearance (EC) given to Jindal Steel Works’ or JSW Utkal’s (its…
The Cambodian government’s ongoing removal of a reported ten thousand families from the Angkor Wat temple complex amounts to mass…
India experienced significant human rights issues in 2022, including unlawful and arbitrary killings, freedom of press and violence targeting religious…
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