The UN Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) aims to promote a human rights-based approach to climate action. This requires that states take ambitious adaptation and mitigation measures that are inclusive and respectful of communities affected by … Continue reading →
On 9 July the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, issued a press statement saying that, following President Trump’s Executive Order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court, Rubio was now imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations … Continue reading →
A report published by Human Rights Watch, a group that investigates abuses of human rights in almost 100 countries, has published a report “Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza” that examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →In its annual report “The State of the World’s Human Rights” published in April 2024, Amnesty International says: The UK government continued to pursue a policy agenda that breached its international human rights commitments and curtailed human rights protections. People … Continue reading →
On 26 March 2024 United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in Geneva that she believes “the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a … Continue reading →
China’s human rights record has come under scrutiny at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group Geneva. An unusually high number of more than 160 countries taking part in discussions, with each given just 45 … Continue reading →
According to the Public Law Project [1], the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill [2] disables important human rights safeguards by disapplying most of the Human Rights Act 1998 and requiring domestic judges to disregard international law and interim … Continue reading →
The following statement was made in Jerusalem on International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023, by Lynn Hastings, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today could have been a celebration of the 75th anniversary of … Continue reading →
Fear of the truth is characteristic of all authoritarian regimes. 4 June is the day when this fear is exemplified in both China and Russia. It may be no coincidence that the governments of both countries have ambitions to take … Continue reading →