In December 2020, the Council established a human rights sanctions framework that applies globally, meaning that the EU can target individuals, entities and bodies – including state and non-state ...
Ahead of the 60th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, commencing on September 8 and running until October 3, close to 100 civil society organizations from Sudan and beyond sent a joint letter to ...
The Council today imposed restrictive measures on five individuals responsible for serious violations or abuses of human rights and for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in ...
Authorities continue to discriminate against women, arbitrarily detain children, shut down civic space, and pressure human rights defenders. This statement was originally published on ...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner published a report on Friday detailing North Korea’s ongoing and worsening human rights crisis. The report, which consists of numerous interviews with North ...
Human Rights First condemns the illegality of recent military action taken by the Trump administration in Venezuela and its announced plan to take over and run the country indefinitely. Venezuelans ...
A coalition of human rights organizations issued a letter on Wednesday urging international companies to suspend their trade transactions with Corporación Dinant, a company in Honduras that ...
Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for "The Daily Signal." Send her an email. President Donald Trump’s State Department is classifying “destructive ideologies” formerly ...
Concerns were raised at the 57th UN Human Rights Council about repression in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, urging accountability and safeguarding free expression. This statement was originally published ...
Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...
A classified report by a U.S. government watchdog has found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in Gaza that would take the State ...
The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America’s ability to make human rights a significant element of its foreign policy. As evidence of that, consider its plan to dramatically reduce ...