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....
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.
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.
The Children’s Act for Responsible Employment (CARE Act) would help protect child farmworkers: Grecia Balli began working in farm fields when she was 10 years old. Grecia is one of an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 children who work in U.S. agriculture. Child farmworkers aren’t treated the same as other children, either, under current U.S. labor laws.
For years, law enforcement has depended on tips from a D.C.-based national hotline to identify human traffickers in the U.S., where the State Department estimates some 15,000 people are trafficked to every year. Using a $3 million award from Google, anti-trafficking groups Polaris Project, Liberty Asia and La Strada International plan to build an alliance of hotlines around the world.
US legislates to prevent child marriage worldwide: In a development welcomed by child marriage activists, the United States Congress has passed a bill stating that child marriage breaches fundamental human rights – and requiring the US to integrate the prevention of this harmful practice across its development programmes. View the article here
Hawaii gov signs domestic workers bill: Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed a domestic workers bill of rights Monday, making Hawaii the second U.S. state to give nannies, housekeepers and others protections on wages and other labor issues. See the article here
Podcast: Engaging Civil and Political Rights in the U.S. The US Human Rights Network is working to promote full implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by educating the public about the U.S. Government obligations under the treaty and by engaging community groups in the effective use of the treaty to promote human rights at home. Listen to it here
Every Human Has Rights: To begin the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), The Elders and partners today launched the Every Human Has Rights campaign to empower global citizens to protect the first-ever comprehensive agreement on human rights among nations. See it here