Can the UN Human Rights Council Protect Rights While Abusers Sit at the Table?
States with abysmal human rights records seek election to the UN Human Rights Council not to advance human rights but ...
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Risky Business in Saudi Arabia’s Bid for the 2024 World Cup
While Saudi Arabia is attracting significant international investment and positioning itself as a major player in technology, tourism, and sports, ...
Instagram ‘Most Important Platform’ for Child Sex Abuse Networks: Report
Instagram is the main platform used by pedophile networks to promote and sell content showing child sexual abuse, according to ...
‘Frighteningly Large Number of Children’ Killed in Sudan: UN
The UN warned that large numbers of children were dying in the Sudan conflict, pointing to reports indicating that seven ...
China Use of Psychiatric Hospitals to Punish Activists ‘Widespread:’ Report
China's use of psychiatric hospitals to imprison activists without due process remains routine, a rights group said.
It’s Time We Give Corporations a Human Rights Scorecard
While there is a growing movement willing to stand up to China’s human rights violations, one major player has proven ...
UN Says Rights Situation in Belarus Deteriorating
The human rights situation in crisis-wracked Belarus is deteriorating, the UN rights chief said Friday, highlighting mass arrests, including of ...
Guantanamo Bay Is Grand Act of Hypocrisy That Must Be Closed
Today, Guantanamo Bay stands for things the US claims to discourage and is, in its purest form, a grand act ...
Things Chinese College Students Say About Trump
Attitudes towards America have always been polarized in China, where wariness of the country’s imperial history exists simultaneously with a ...
With Liberty and Injustice: America’s Policy of Regulating Bodies and Borders
The US has witnessed racism, xenophobia, and misogyny. With reports of appalling treatment of immigrant women at ICE detention centers ...
Not Accepted: The Tale of an Iraqi Human Rights Activist in Turkey
Sami lived through the war in Iraq as a teenager before fleeing to Turkey. He now works with human rights ...
China’s New Hong Kong Law Sparks International Condemnation
China's sweeping new national security law on Hong Kong has sparked international condemnation, while Beijing claims the reform is needed ...
Democracy Under Threat During Pandemic, Global Leaders Warn
Over 500 political and civil society leaders, Nobel laureates and rights groups, on Thursday warned that some governments were using ...
Emergency Powers in Virus Fight Must Not be Used to Quash Dissent: UN Experts
Governments in countries going into crisis mode over the spread of the deadly new coronavirus must not use the emergency ...
Human Rights Under Assault Worldwide: UN Chief
"A perverse political arithmetic has taken hold: divide people to multiply votes," he said, warning that "the rule of law ...
Repression Deepening in Saudi Arabia Even After Khashoggi Murder: HRW
Despite a perception that the outcry over the October 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi had left the Saudis chastened, ...
Migrants on Greek Islands ‘on Edge of Catastrophe:’ Council of Europe
"What we see in practice is telling me that human rights are not respected. This is an unacceptable situation."
Thousands Scramble to Flee Unrest in Indonesia’s Papua
The incidents come against a backdrop of a long history of reported rights abuses in the region.
More to Palestine than Conflict: It’s Time to Talk About Internal Human Rights
When it comes to Palestine, all agency is removed from those at the center of the issue and replaced by ...
UN Warns Climate Change Has Dire Human Rights Consequences
U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet cited the civil wars sparked by a warming planet and the plight of indigenous people ...
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