The United States on Monday blacklisted Alexander Bastrykin, Russia's top investigator and a close aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and four other Russian officials for human rights abuses.
Brazil's anti-poverty fight could suffer a setback due to economic strife, the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) warned on Monday.
Compared with the state sector, China's private businesses are vulnerable in terms of property rights, but that may change as new policy expands the safety net.
State Council promises law-based protections to raise confidence in the safety of real-estate assets
China on Sunday released a guideline on better protection of property rights in an effort to shore up social confidence and promote social justice.
A historic mosque in India agreed on Monday (Oct 24) to scrap a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, after a bitter legal battle about the restriction in the deeply religious country.
The Chinese government on Thursday published its third national action plan on human rights protection, addressing challenges and promising to improve people's standard of living and quality of life.
China's protection of ethnic minority rights won recognition from both domestic and overseas specialists at a China-Europe seminar on human rights, which opened Wednesday in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing.
A white paper published Monday by the State Council Information Office hailed the new progress made in human rights protection in the field of justice as China enhances the rule of law in all respects.
China on Thursday voiced resolute opposition to a call by United Nations human rights experts to release a jailed activist, saying it is "gross interference in China's domestic affairs and judicial sovereignty."
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the United States' comments on the cases of so called "human rights lawyers" were a flagrant interference of China's internal affairs and judicial sovereignty.
Human rights values and freedoms are under attack throughout the world, according to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein. In an opening speech to the 32nd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, he outlined a number of pressing human rights concerns he said could have been prevented.
For the first time the U.N. Security Council has used language acknowledging violence targeting the LGBT community in an official statement.
The Chinese government on Tuesday released a report reviewing the human rights progress from 2012 to 2015 and promising harder effort in the future.
The UN Human Rights Council (HCR) on Monday marked its tenth anniversary by holding a high-level panel discussion to reflect on its achievements and challenges.
At a time when the Norwegian authorities are looking for ways to resolve the controversies surrounding the country's child welfare service Barnevernet, local media organizations should be more engaged in reporting relevant cases and help promote children protection, media veterans and rights lawyers said at a seminar on Monday.
China’s visiting foreign minister publicly berated a Canadian journalist on Wednesday for asking a question about his country’s human rights record.
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