Human Rights

Oman: Domestic Workers Trafficked, Trapped

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A migrant domestic worker watches over a child playing in the Magic...

Israel: Law Targets Human Rights Groups

Israel’s new law regulating nongovernmental organizations targets human rights organizations and other groups that criticize the government with onerous reporting requirements about donations from foreign governments. The law, written in a way to...

Global leaders and youth advocates launch new partnership and fund to end violence against children everywhere

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Sixteen-year-old Fatima and her newborn in a shelter for girls and women who...

Warning against ‘cherry-picking’ among Global Goals, UN experts say human rights cannot be ignored

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UN in collaboration with Project Everyone

Human trafficking: "Few victims go to court because we don't protect them enough"

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Barbara Lochbihler

China: EU Should Press for Action to End Crackdown

European Union leaders should publicly call for an end to the Chinese government’s crackdown on peaceful dissent and urge the release of all those wrongfully detained, Human Rights Watch said on Jul 11 in a letter to European Commission President Jean...

Thailand: Activists, Journalist Arrested for Vote-No Campaign

Thai authorities arrested four activists campaigning against the military junta’s draft constitution and a journalist reporting on the campaign, Human Rights Watch said on JUl 11. A referendum on the proposed constitution is scheduled for August 7,...

Stand up for and invest in teenage girls, UN says on World Population Day

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Students laugh as they leave school in Bangladesh.

Saudi Coalition Airstrikes Target Civilian Factories in Yemen

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Seventeen workers remained inside the Middle East Workshop for Sewing and Embroidery when coalition aircraft bombed it on...

calls on Kyrgyz authorities to implement UN Human Rights Committee decision

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An ODIHR delegation visited human rights defender Azimjan Askarov in prison in Bishkek on 15 December 2011.