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Human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates (6 C, 8 P) Human rights abuses in the United Kingdom (19 C, 14 P) Human rights abuses in the United States (26 C, 32 P)
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...
Widespread human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have often been characterized as genocide. [48] There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and detention , torture , mass surveillance , cultural and religious persecution, family separation , forced labor , sexual violence , and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about ...
Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country said ...
Chetnik war crimes in World War II; Children in the military; Human rights violations by the CIA; Conversion therapy; Corporate accountability for human rights violations; COVID-19 lockdowns; Cruel and unusual punishment; Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Human Rights Day — Dec. 10 — is an opportunity to honor the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), signed in 1948. This historic document laid out the most basic ...
In December Alston and 27 other U.N. human rights officials wrote World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to complain that the bank’s proposed revisions to its “social safeguards” policies for protecting people in the path of development “avoid any meaningful references to human rights.” A spokesman for the World Bank said the bank ...