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Human Rights Day in communist Cuba was chock-full of State Security surveillance, internet cut-offs, and arbitrary arrests of dissidents. While the world celebrated human rights this December 10th, the Castro dictatorship ratcheted up its usual daily repression to ensure no dissident dared to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Sunday morning to bring attention to the human rights crisis in Gaza during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

A new book by Angela Beauchamp, a lecturer in Film History and department administrator in the Film & Digital Arts program at The University of New Mexico, examines First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s record as one of the most important women of the...

“This is the call of all the Palestinian families, the thousands of children who were killed, including my son Abdullah. Our call is to all free people across the world. Please stop this genocide.”

By Emma Farge GENEVA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief urged countries on Monday to work together to defeat threats such as war and pollution at an event to mark 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that risks being overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas conflict. Ministers, diplomats and activists attended…

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08/03/2024: Coverage of proceedings in the House of Lords on Friday 8 March.. Live House of Lords airs on BBC Parliament at 10:00 AM, Friday 8 March. Coverage of proceedings in the House of Lords on Friday 8 March.

BERLIN (JTA) – Several thousand Berliners braved a chilling rain Sunday to demonstrate against antisemitism at an interfaith rally at the city’s iconic Brandenburg Gate.

While one-third of Canadians say they have read the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, many fail to distinguish between its text and that of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, a new survey suggests.

The French parliament on Monday voted down a flagship immigration bill of President Emmanuel Macron's government, prompting his high-profile interior minister to offer to resign over the "failure".