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In 2023 he led the Human Rights 75 initiative, to advance women's and children's rights, support climate change mitigation, and empower people with disabilities. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Türk promotes human rights as a solution to new challenges, such as the implications of digital technology on privacy and freedom of expression.
In a statement, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said: "As if the relentless bombing and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the one sanctuary where ...
A veteran human rights campaigner who criticized the war in Ukraine was convicted Tuesday by a Moscow court of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian military and sentenced to 2½ years in prison.
He was the initiator of the case of the political prisoner Ales Byaliatski, one of the most prominent human rights defenders, Chief of the Belarusian Human Rights Centre Vyasna, Vice President of FIDH. A. Byalyatski was active in defending and providing assistance to those who suffered from repression in relation to the 19 December 2010 ...
A Moscow court sentenced human rights activist Oleg Orlov to two and a half years in prison for denouncing the war in Ukraine.. Orlov, 70, was accused by prosecutors for “discrediting” the ...
A Human Right hopes that providing internet access to impoverished regions of the world would help to solve many of their problems, such as shortages of food, potable water, and health care. Grammatis believes that, "People are ingenious. If you give people access to information, they can solve their own problems." [3]
The United Nations' top human rights official said on Friday that diversity was not a threat and should be treasured, in comments that appeared aimed at Donald Trump over the U.S. president's ...
The Mainspring of Human Progress; The Market for Liberty; The Myth of the Rational Voter; No, They Can't; No Treason; New Libertarian Manifesto; Our Enemy, the State; The Problem of Political Authority; Progress and Poverty; Protection or Free Trade; Radicals for Capitalism; Seeing Like a State; To Serve and Protect; The Unconstitutionality of ...