UN human rights office urges Egypt to immediately release detained protestors
OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
Libya: Deadly Airstrike Apparently Unlawful
Relief services search for survivors after an airstrike on a private residence...
Venezuela, Poland and Sudan amongst 14 new Human Rights Council members
The Human Rights Council, Geneva
Guinea: End Crackdown on Opponents to New Constitution
Guinea’s government should end its crackdown on the right to protest by releasing civil society leaders and demonstrators opposed to a new constitution, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 18, 2019. The government should also investigate the killings of...
UN: Protect Rights in Welfare Systems’ Tech Overhaul
Governments should heed the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services, seven human rights groups said on Oct 17, 2019.
Malta: Human rights experts call for justice in case of murdered journalist
ress Briefing by Ms. Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or...
UAE: Free Unjustly Detained Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) should free the unjustly imprisoned prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor ahead of his 50th birthday on October 22, 2019, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and over 135...
UN’s Bachelet addresses progress and setbacks in human rights worldwide
Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the 42nd session of the...
US: Rolling Back Coal Ash Rules Threatens Health
A coal ash pile in Guayama, Puerto Rico
Australia: Older People in Aged Care Drugged Up
Many aged care facilities in Australia routinely give older people with dementia dangerous medicines to control their behavior, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Oct 15, 2019.
