Qatar has announced a $3 million donation to the office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, aiming to support welfare and safety in the war-torn country. According to Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the funds will support initiatives to improve the lives of children, citizens affected by armed […]
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi urged the international community to increase pressure on Iran over its grave human rights violations during a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on Monday. Mohammadi, 51, a prominent human rights activist, has spent much of the last two decades in […]
GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts, as reported by The Associated Press, have uncovered further evidence of “horrific” torture inflicted upon Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian captors, potentially constituting war crimes. The Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine revealed widespread human rights violations since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s directive […]
A new report by Amnesty International details widespread human rights abuses faced by women working in informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The report, titled “Cross-border is our livelihood, it is our job” – Decent work as a human right for women cross border traders in southern […]
The source: UN “Online and ‘real life’ media serve as watchdogs and early warning systems for the full range of potential human rights violations,” said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on the safety of journalists. “And that is precisely why journalists are so frequently the targets of threats, violence […]
This article is based on a press release from the Council of Europe [source: Council of Europe]. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, expressed deep concern about the state of freedom of expression and the environment for journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society in Turkey, […]
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Human Rights Press Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/european-court-human-rights-confirms-undermining-encryption-violates-fundamental) The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has issued a landmark decision in the case of Podchasov v. Russia, ruling that weakening encryption to grant access to communications data violates the right to privacy enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights […]
A report by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan underscores the persisting mass violence and gross human rights violations in the country, casting a shadow over the upcoming landmark elections scheduled for December. Despite the promise of these elections to symbolize a step towards lasting peace since […]
26 February 2024Human Rights War crimes, racism, arbitrary detention and rape as a weapon of war: these just a few of the pressing international issues over which the UN Human Rights Council deliberates. Its new session beginning on Monday is the longest ever, running until April, and promises a packed agenda, with […]