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16 Dec 2010, 5:29 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
“Today, the United States government at last officially endorsed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and joined the international community in recognizing that American Indians and other indigenous peoples have a permanent right to exist as peoples, nations, cultures, and societies. [read post]
The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (UNHRHC) released a statement Monday condemning the idea that the Taliban was “reformed. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 1:20 pm by Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M.
Judge Liberatori reportedly ruled that Sandra is legally a non-human person, and is “entitled to some legal rights enjoyed by people, and better living conditions [because the Judge] wanted to tell society something new, that animals are sentient beings and that the first right they have is our obligation to respect them. [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 9:47 am by Lisl Brunner
These reports underscore that while most states do not appear to conduct communications surveillance on as large a scale as the United States and the United Kingdom appear to, the right to privacy in communications must be addressed on a global level. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 11:30 am by Adham Sahloul
But according to Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), conditions in east Aleppo are far more dire, with the area encircled by both the regime and, farther to the east, the Islamic State. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 3:20 pm
The Guidance was produced following an open, global, year-long consultative process that involved States, companies, civil society, NHRIs and academia. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 12:29 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Media contact:    Kate Sarna: 202-836-1265, ksarna@hslf.org   ## The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a social welfare organization incorporated under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and formed in 2004 as a separate lobbying affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 12:48 pm
UN independent expert on extrajudicial killings urges action on reported incidents 28 March 2007 - A United Nations independent human rights expert on extrajudicial killings today called for action in response to reported incidents in the United States, Iran, the Russian Federation, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Indonesia. [read post]
29 Mar 2015, 9:00 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
Finally, there are the dozens of civil rights groups that are now advocating against the RFRAs for the sake of those who can be hurt by religious actors, from Americans United for Separation of Church and State to the Human Rights Campaign, the state branches of the National Organization of Women, the state branches of the ACLU, Better Georgia, the Texas Freedom Network, and numerous children’s rights groups. [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 7:12 pm
Daniel Augenstein The modern human rights tradition as it evolved in the West after the 18th century revolutions in France and the United States has tied their legal protection to the democratic constitutional state. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 2:45 pm
   At the same time they are predicated on a Western approach to legality, and to the nature of the relationship between state, enterprise, people and society that sometimes do not accord with the lived realities of other cultures and other systems (and therefore which are judged inferior in a sort of modernized 19th century "civilized family of states" sort of way). [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 4:30 pm by INFORRM
  The American government’s blatant disregard for firmly entrenched and longstanding free speech principles, and the pressure it is attempting to exert on Europe in this area, should alarm human rights defenders both in the United States and abroad. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 12:13 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Founded in 1954, the Humane Society of the United States and its affiliates around the globe fight the big fights to end suffering for all animals. [read post]