A non-profit human rights organisation in Nigeria, Lawyers Alert, has trained personnel of National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Buruli-Ulcer Control Programme on safeguarding rights of persons affected by Tuberculosis. The training...
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, recorded 19,470 complaints of rights abuse in April 2024, with most of the reports brought against government agents. The April 2024 NHRC Human Rights Assessment Dashboard, released on Friday in…
The author of Human Rights, Robot Wrongs on why AI isn’t an all-or-nothing equation, separating hype from genuine dangers, and discovering that ChatGPT says she doesn’t exist
Addis Abeba -- In a compressive report submitted to the United Nations, leading human rights organizations Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights have alleged a broad pattern of serious violations across multiple conflict zones…
On Wednesday the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Grand Chamber will hear Caster Semenya v Switzerland. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will intervene as a third-party friend of the court. This case stems from a…
Bianna Golodryga speaks to Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, Tirana Hassan, after the organization published a new report detailing deadly violence in Sudan's West Darfur.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has identified demolitions of properties and confiscation as part of the human rights violations complaints it received in April 2024 nationwide.
A DW team has won a prestigious journalism prize for an investigative documentary, in which it provides evidence of targeted killings by an elite unit of the Bangladeshi army.
The National human rights commission says it recorded a total number of nineteen thousand, four hundred and seventy human rights violation cases in Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones for the month of April. The commission called on the…
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has called for strict legislation to ban cultism in the country’s institutions of learning. The commission suggested that the legislation be made in such a way that it will not affect the rights…
A new report from Binghamton University underscores the global neglect of worker rights, ranking countries on their human rights observances and identifying a decline in...
Worker rights are among the least protected human rights in the world, according to new research from faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Troops of the Special Task Force Operation Safe have been told not to act on emotions while carrying out their duties but to be driven by patriotism. This advice was given during a lecture series organised for troops of the military outfit…
Thousands were killed when Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias attacked the western region of Darfur in what amounted to an ethnic cleansing, Human Rights Watch said.