Amnesty International urged the government of the Philippines on Wednesday to cease using the country’s anti-terrorism laws against development workers and human rights activists and to halt its ...

Just before universities closed for the year in 2024, the Australian Human Rights ... refers only to the international students. In its “initial insights”, the commission draws on the supposed ...

MANILA, Philippines — Extrajudicial killings (EJKs) should be “independent and distinct from the crime of murder,” according to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). During the House ...

If Donald Trump’s second term is anything like his first, the incoming US president will not advance the cause of human rights ... t present rights as values to be promoted only when world ...

We are writing to urge swift action from the European Commission to defend and protect ... and to discuss further this matter. Human Rights Watch operates in over 100 countries, where we work ...

alleged that a 2019 job posting for a Grievance and Adjudication Officer discriminated against him based on sex as it was restricted to “women only,” in violation of Ontario’s Human Rights Code. The ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the government's decision to constitute the eighth pay commission will boost consumption and improve the quality of life. We are all proud of the ...

United States President Donald Trump is planning to cut off US engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and extend a funding ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

BRUSSELS — The European Commission denied Monday that it obscured the full extent of President Ursula von der Leyen’s illness, after it failed to disclose that she was in hospital for around a week ...

In a major decision, the government on Thursday decided to set up the 8th Pay Commission to revise salaries of central government employees and allowances of pensioners. The decision to set up the ...