Human Rights Body Slams Targetting Of Women Journalists In Pakistan

(MENAFN- IANS) Islamabad, Aug 19 (IANS) The Human Rights Council (HRC) of Pakistan on Tuesday strongly condemned the registration of cases under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) against four women journalists in the country, calling...

Human rights defender commends VP Chiwenga’s renewed attack on shadowy elites

BY BRENNA MATENDERE MAKESURE Choga, a Kwekwe based human rights defender and state sponsored torture survivor, has commended Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s consistence on speaking against corruption kingpins infamously known as “Zvigananda”...

Human Rights Organization Demands Release Of Chinese Workers Detained By NIS

1 A Human Rights Organization known as Conscience Foundation has called for the immediate release of five Chinese workers allegedly detained by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) over alleged visa irregularities. The workers, identified as...

State Department’s 2024 human rights report could jeopardize LGBTQ asylum cases

Advocacy groups on Tuesday sharply criticized the removal LGBTQ-specific references from the State Department’s 2024 human rights report. The report, which the State Department released on Tuesday, does not reference Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality...

ISS-Corporate: More companies disclosing human rights policies in 2025

An analysis of large-cap (over $10bn market capitalisation) companies’ disclosures by software and consultancy firm ISS-Corporate found an increase in the rate of reporting on human rights policies across EMEA, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific...

EU Human Rights Court Bars Greece Deporting 8 Sudanese Men

ATHENS – Greece’s suspension of asylum applications for refugees and migrants arriving from Africa through Libya has collided with a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision prohibiting the deportation of eight Sudanese men. They were...

Telangana Human Rights Commission seeks TGSPDCL report on Ramanthapur incident

The Telangana Human Rights Commission has taken suo-motu cognizance of the deaths of five people due to electrocution at Ramanthapur. THRC has directed TGSPDCL to submit a comprehensive report covering causes, accountability, compensation, and...

The Human Rights Union of Nagorno-Karabakh Refugees urges states to respond appropriately to Azerbaijan’s crimes against Nagorno-Karabakh’s civilian population during and after the conflict, in line with the Hague and Geneva Conventions

August 19 is World Humanitarian Day, established by a resolution UN General Assembly in 2008. This day is yet another call to highlight the urgent need to protect the violated rights of the forcibly displaced population of Nagorno-Karabakh....

GUEST OPINION Evan McMahon: Braun, ICE collaboration violates human rights

If you commit the “crime” of speaking Spanish in Indiana, watch your back. The Indiana State Police and Indiana National Guard are looking for you. Gov. Mike Braun recently announced the Indiana State Police, Indiana Department of Correction and...

US Human Rights Report on Venezuela Doesn’t Pass the Mirror Test

by Roger D. Harris / August 19th, 2025 The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article,...

Press Statement of Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United Nations in Geneva on Outcomes of 59th Session of Human Rights Council

Argentine human rights groups to pursue legal action against Netanyahu for genocide

(MENAFN) Several Argentine human rights organizations have lodged a criminal complaint against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The case was filed jointly by the Mothers...

Presidential monologue (69): Human rights matter Sylvester Odion Akhaine

Mr. President, good morning. I address the issue of human rights this morning and, as a corollary, admonish you. First, let me thank you for the release of Ms. Comfort Emmanson, who was brutalized in the most inhuman way by the Air Ibom host and...

DMZ Docs returns with focus on peace, human rights

The DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, also known as DMZ Docs, a platform that explores global issues like peace, climate change and human rights near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas, is set to return this...

Telangana Human Rights Commission takes suo moto cognisance of electrocution deaths, seeks report from TGSPDCL

People protesting in front of the Telangana Electricity department after five people died of electrocution when a vehicle came in contact with overhead electric wires during a procession organised as part of Janmashtami celebrations, in...

Omaha human rights official in race to be first new Douglas County treasurer in decades

OMAHA — Christian Espinosa Torres, currently assistant director of the Omaha Human Rights and Relations Department, announced his bid this week to become the first newly elected Douglas County treasurer in 20 years. The post was vacated two months...

Review feeding allocation for prisoners from GHS1.80 to GHS5 – Human Rights Committee to Mahama

CrimeHot! August 19, 2025 1 minute read The Human Rights Committee of Parliament has called on President John Dramani Mahama to increase the daily feeding allocation for prisoners from GHS1.80 to at least GHS5. The Committee, chaired by Kumawu MP...

Human Rights Commission Launches Formal Investigation Into Minister McKenzie’s Past Tweets

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has initiated a formal investigation into Sports, Arts, and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie’s tweets during his earlier years. The inquiry examines whether the decade-old tweets contravened...

Asian companies take note: Trump is still focused on human rights abuses in your US supply chain

He has called climate change a “hoax”. In his address to a joint session of Congress in March, he declared, “Our country will be woke no longer.” His administration has downscaled the United States government’s annual report on global human rights...

UK’s first trans judge challenges Supreme Court in European human rights case

UK’s first transgender judge, Dr Victoria McCloud, has lodged a landmark case against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), arguing the nation’s top court excluded trans voices in a ruling that redefined legal sex. McCloud, who...