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Sri Lanka’s constant neglect for UN’s warnings on human rights

Sri Lanka’s constant neglect for UN’s warnings on human rights

Sri Lankan - Human rights are put to test every day in Sri Lanka. Even after a decade is over of the country witnessing a civil war, Sri Lankan government has continued to use Prevention

Venezuela Continues To Ignore Human Right Violations: UN Report

Venezuela Continues To Ignore Human Right Violations: UN Report

Venezuela - In its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, a three-member Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela has discovered that the Venezuelan government has failed to keep its promise and persecute human

Afghanistan: Humanitarian urgency as country plunges into extreme hunger crisis

Afghanistan: Humanitarian urgency as country plunges into extreme hunger crisis

Afghanistan - is witnessing one of the worst humanitarian crisis of current times – the country is struggling under extreme hunger crisis. “Children in the provinces – they are only skin on bones now –

Europe: Russian linked petitions canceled by rights groups

Europe: Russian linked petitions canceled by rights groups

Europe - Post Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights has held all the petitions against Mexico on Wednesday. The court is the judicial arm of the body that

Baloch Human Rights Group Alarmed Over Enforced Disappearances In Balochistan; Group Staged Protest Against Pakistan

Baloch Human Rights Group Alarmed Over Enforced Disappearances In Balochistan; Group Staged Protest Against Pakistan

Pakistan - The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) protested at Broken Chair in Geneva, Switzerland, against Pakistan over enforced disappearances in Balochistan and the rest of the country. Nearly 20 people participated in the demonstration.

Calls for investigation into Ecuador police abuse during peaceful protests on Women’s Day

Calls for investigation into Ecuador police abuse during peaceful protests on Women’s Day

Ecuador - The global watchdog Human Rights Watch has said that Ecuadorian police had responded in a rather violent manner with excessive force to break up the peaceful protests on March 8, International Women’s Day.

Unfair Trial Sees More Political Prisoners In Cambodia  

Unfair Trial Sees More Political Prisoners In Cambodia  

Cambodia - A Cambodian court has now convicted some 19 politicians from the Opposition party along with activists that had instrumental in an unfair trial that was focused on defaming the PM Hun Sen and

Russia no more a watchdog of human rights at the Council of Europe

Russia no more a watchdog of human rights at the Council of Europe

Russia - On Tuesday, Russia announced its decision of quitting the Council of Europe as a human rights watchdog in the region. This after neighbors and other European nations have been objecting to Moscow's move

Formula 1 ignoring humans rights abuse in Bahrain ahead of Grand Prix

Formula 1 ignoring humans rights abuse in Bahrain ahead of Grand Prix

Bahrain - Ahead of the 2022 Formula 1 season-opener in Bahrain, human rights activists have accused the Formula 1 organizer of ignoring the human rights abuse in the country. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and

Farmworkers forced to work on Human Rights Day in Limpopo

Farmworkers forced to work on Human Rights Day in Limpopo

South Africa - A farm business in Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, is planning to force its employees to report for duty on Human Rights Day. The workers said that Spiff Chicken, an