human rights

The United States is set to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, with the US ambassador to the UN calling the organisation a “protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias”....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday condemned the alleged extra-judicial killings of suspected drug offenders in Bangladesh and urged the authorities to ensure that these serious human rights violations are...

The UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has commended endeavors and achievements of Bangladesh in the realization of human rights. The committee came up with the appreciation at the first review of the...

Children giggle at the antics of a group of clowns fooling around in a Lebanese village sports ground. However, these street performers are not just there for the laughs. They are using tomfoolery to convey a...

News Hour: British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would be willing to weaken human rights protections to make it easier to deport or curb the movements of suspected militants when there is not...

News Hour: As President embarks on his first foreign tour this weekend, the irony of his decision to make his first stop in Saudi Arabia, home to some of Islam’s holiest sites, will not be lost...

News Hour: The Central Asian country of Turkmenistan has recently adopted a national action plan on combating human trafficking in March. Alongside this development has come a focus on human rights issues including migrants’ rights. This...

News Hour: IOM is currently providing human rights training sessions in five Libyan detention centres, the first such trainings since 2014. In this pilot project, IOM is targeting five centres (Abu Salim, Tariq al Sekka, Al...

News Hour: IOM has held a five-day training for managers and staff of Libyan detention centres on The Promotion and Protection of Migrants’ Human Rights inside the Detention Centres. The training was designed to build the...

News Hour: A new government decree based in part on IOM’s ground-breaking research into human trafficking in the Indonesian fisheries will address chronic human rights abuses in the industry, the country’s Minister of Marine Affairs and...