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The observation by novelist Milan Kundera was initially about the situation in Communist Czechoslovakia, where politicians ...

Eleven years after the horrific Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar, on May 24 the European Union adopted a new law that ...

Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights released a report on Australia’s human rights framework. The ...

Federico Borello, an Italian lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in human rights, civilian protection, and ...

On May 30, the US government announced travel sanctions against five former and current Ugandan government officials, ...

In a historic decision last week, a longstanding United Nations body recognized that the international human rights system ...

Governments attending UN climate talks in Bonn from June 3 to June 13, 2024 should push for rights-respecting and ambitious ...

Today, the Guna Indigenous people living on the tiny, overcrowded, and flood-prone island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama will ...

A Kenyan delegation arrived last week in crisis-torn Haiti, setting the stage for deployment of a mission set to assist ...

In a rare piece of good news for human rights and democracy in the United Kingdom, last week the High Court ruled that ...