"Individuals naturally seek freedoms and rights, but those rights can only become real if the state is strong enough to ...

Nepal, May 27 -- Speaker of the House of Representatives Dol Prasad Aryal has pointed out the need for collective efforts to protect human rights.Addressing a programme organised today on the occasion ...

Amnesty International Nigeria has trained 30 young human rights defenders in Cross River State as part of efforts to strengthen civic space protection and promote human rights awareness at the ...

Following the Ontario Superior Court of Justice's decision in The Regional Municipality of Waterloo v. Named Respondents and Persons Unknown (2026), the Federal Housing Advocate, Marie-Josée Houle, ...

GENEVA, July 1 (Reuters) - Athletes who speak out for equality or denounce abuses in their sport often do so at great personal risk and must be given the same protection as all other defenders of ...

The ink on the Chișinău Political Declaration is barely dry and already the political spin has begun. We have emerged from a ...

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Dr Tony Ojukwu, has disclosed ongoing efforts to secure ...

Next week in Ottawa, countries will reconvene to continue negotiations on an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. A revised draft of the treaty published by the United ...

Established in 2013, the World Human Rights Protection Commission (WHRPC) is a non-profit social organisation dedicated to ...

GENEVA/WASHINGTON/BANJUL – A group of UN and regional independent human rights experts today launched the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR), to better coordinate joint advocacy ...

Australia is the only Western democracy not to have a Human Rights Act in its legal system or constitution. Instead, Australia has a patchwork of rights, leaning on individual legislation, such as the ...