A group of 19 Mauritian women used the first Optional Protocol to the ICCPR to complain about the discriminatory law to the Human Rights Committee. They complained that the law discriminated ...

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Ignoring Human Rights Watch's request for information and ... and comfortable lodgings. As these examples suggest, guard corruption is rampant in many prisons around the world.

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The First Congregational Church of Westfield is accepting nominations for the 2025 Marc Wesley Hardy Human Rights Award. The ...

A conversation on human rights can become politically charged, but it really boils down to meeting people's basic needs, says Mayor Brandon Sakbun. Those basic human rights are not political, he said.

In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international ...

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The halt to funding for the NED threatens to shut down groups documenting and helping to stop human rights abuses in North Korea. Last week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights ...