South Africa was also one of the first states to accept the court’s jurisdiction in 2002. Today, 34 of the 55 African Union ...

President Wavel Ramkalawan received a delegation from the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) at State House this morning. The delegation was led by Honourable Commissioner Solomon ...

Last week, a cross-regional group of countries – led by Iceland, with support from Chile and South Africa – called on the ...

The Commission's resolution highlights the pressing need to update African media policy for the digital age.The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) has urged the Special Rapporteur ...

Amid a global backlash against women’s rights, the EU Commission presented on Friday its long-term political vision for achieving a gender-equal society, known as the ‘roadmap on women’s ...

Kennedy Human Rights Logo (PRNewsfoto/RFK Center for Justice ... Deputy Director of the bipartisan Federal Glass Ceiling Commission, co-authored the Commission's landmark final report and was ...

Pace, a former secretary of the UN Commission on Human Rights, was sent by Amnesty International in 2000 to report on the programme, recalling that, when he returned, he had remarked to the ...

Reporters Without Borders and the Society for Civil Liberties complain to the European Court of Human Rights about the BND's surveillance powers. Germany's surveillance laws violate human rights.

uphold the human rights of South Sudanese citizens, and ensure a smooth transition to democracy," Yasmin Sooka, chairperson of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, said in a statement.

South Africa still has a long way to go in respecting human rights. This is confirmed by protest marches across the country ...

Sixty years later, we are now witnessing the apex of the anti-human rights backlash, heard in President Donald Trump’s absurd claim, echoed by acolytes like Gov. Ron DeSantis, that DEI ...

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