BANGALORE: "If the world lets go of such atrocities and if people do not actually learn to stand up and act, I fear one day my home may also be faced with similar horror and no matter how much I beg and cry for help, it may not come," said Mathhew Arnold Mata, 16, from Legacy School, Bangalore.
This was the student's reaction when he was shown the plight of civil rights activist Irom Sharmila, in an effort by Amnesty International India to bring Human Rights Education programme into the classrooms.
During her State of the State Address, Governor Jan Brewer urged the Legislature to do more to crack down on human trafficking in Arizona and on Monday, new anti-trafficking billboards were unveiled.
The billboards display the number for the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline where people can report crimes and get help for victims...
Twenty Gambian musicians recently concluded a two-day intensive training on human rights and democracy, promoting social justice through music...
31 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the presidential pardon granted in Myanmar to political prisoners convicted of or prosecuted for various offences under seven specific laws, including unlawful association, peaceful assembly, treason and sedition...
...Friday is the deadline for corporate suppliers of the world’s biggest consumer—the U.S. government—to have a say in new regulations aimed at ending indentured servitude overseas. The rules stem from an executive order Obama signed last year, called “Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In Persons In Federal Contracts.” ...
The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has compared the uproar in the international community caused by revelations of mass surveillance with the collective response that helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa...
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S release Friday of his most famous prisoner showed that Western censure can change his calculations. In recent days, President Obama and the presidents of Germany and France announced they would not attend the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, in what was widely interpreted as a protest of Russia’s...
December 6, 2013 - A United Nations declaration 65 years ago remains a cherished pledge for people around the world. This coming week, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated in events around the region...
The winners of the prestigious United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013 have been announced today by the selection committee. They are: Biram Dah Abeid, Hiljmnijeta Apuk, Liisa Kauppinen, Khadija Ryadi, the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico and Malala Yousafzai...
Human rights advocates from across the country are joining together today in a National Day of Action to raise awareness about the state of human rights in the United States at the local, state, and federal levels, and to spotlight areas where the U.S. has fallen behind in its international human rights obligations....
Wild, wild web: Is the Internet a lawless no man’s land? Based on the recent public debate on data protection and massive privacy infringements, this course will explore the connection between cyber security and human rights, and systematically examines the compliance between international human rights norms, standards and mechanism within legal and political frameworks and the growing cyber security regime.
BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers awarded their top human rights prize Thursday to Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who last year survived a Taliban assassination attempt because of her outspoken support for girls' education.
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KATHMANDU: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is planning to incorporate human rights education into the school curricula.
The commission wants to include human rights education in schools in order to create a rights-friendly society, said NHRC Secretary Bed Prasad Bhattarai inaugurating a two-day workshop in Dhulikhel today.
U.S. Support for Human Rights Defenders: Protecting and supporting human rights defenders is a key priority of U.S. foreign policy. The Department’s objective is to enable human rights defenders to promote and defend human rights without hindrance or undue restriction and free from fear of retribution against them or their families.
Malala Yousafzai, the teenager shot by the Taliban after speaking out for girls' rights to education in Pakistan, declared that pens and books were weapons to defeat terrorism as she officially opened a new £188m civic library in her adopted home city of Birmingham.
Media Voices For Children, The Global Community For Children's Rights, presents a large library of original content videos focusing on the plight of children's rights, in such topics as trafficing, forced labor, education, poverty and hunger.
New ILO tool steps up fight against child labour: The ILO presents a training guide to help its constituents tackle the worst forms of child labor. It defines the worst forms of child labor, presents key strategies for their elimination, outlines recommended actions for governments, employers’, workers’ and other civil society organizations and addresses monitoring and evaluation as an essential feature of successful action plans.
Slavery In History: Read this slavery timeline, from Mesopotamia to our present day, to see how the anti-slavery movement evolved through the ages.