Korean commission finds adoption program rife with abuse, highlighting AP investigation
A South Korean commission found the country violated its children's human rights by facilitating a foreign adoption program ...
Human Rights Council blocks watchdog chief from criticizing UN official accused of antisemitism
The U.N. Human Rights Council blocked Hillel Neuer from finishing his remarks criticizing Special Rapporteur for the Occupied ...
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EU/Central Asia: Deepening Ties Should Center Human Rights
The EU should put human rights at the center of its intensifying engagement with Central Asian countries at the inaugural ...
Human rights commission faced disagreements, growing pains, collaboration while overseeing police misconduct claims, officials say
Two years after the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission began monitoring the police department's Internal Affairs ...
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Benue: NHRC, UNHCR Train Personnel In Three LGAs For IDPs, Refugees, Asylum Seekers
MAKURDI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in collaboration with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), has commenced a two day training on data and information collection ...
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Israel accused of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza by U.N. experts
United Nations-backed human rights experts ... care facilities.” The commission stopped short of accusing Israel of genocide, as some advocacy groups and other rights experts have.
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Bolstering the UN Human Rights Council’s Effectiveness
Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...
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Map Shows Countries on Human Rights Watchlist as US Added
Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist. CIVICUS categorizes civil rights into five distinct levels—open ...
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Australia must learn from COVID-19 response and prioritise human rights in future emergencies
A major new report about the COVID-19 pandemic by the Australian Human Rights Commission has highlighted how critical gaps in the emergency response could be improved upon in future crises. The report ...
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US added to human rights watchlist for ‘narrowing’ freedom and now ranks near Serbia and Congo
It’s the first watchlist of the year. Claiming the U.S. was “once a global champion for democracy and human rights,” CIVICUS said Trump’s attempts to remake the federal government in his ...
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Immigrant Rights Commission
The SF Immigrant Forum is an online tool for immigrants of all backgrounds and statuses in San Francisco. This site includes resources for free to low-cost immigration legal help, know your rights, ...
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Ex-Facebook employee alleges sexual harassment and human rights failures in new memoir
In the memoir, “Careless People,” to be published by Flatiron Books, she alleges that Facebook ignored internal alarms about possible damage to human rights and democracy as it pursued ...