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Organizes an event examining discrimination and education launches public awareness campaign against discrimination in employment The New York State Division of Human Rights (DHR), as part of the commemoration of Black History Month, will host a live webinar on racial discrimination in education and news protections under state anti-discrimination law on Feb. 23 at 5:30 …

A groundbreaking attempt to hold Iranian and Syrian military officials accountable for war crimes they may have committed in Syria is launched, as part of an attempt to take the cases to the International Criminal Court. The request includes evidence of Syrian victims forced to flee to Jordan due to attacks and intimidation by the …

LEWISBURG — A Bucknell University professor warns that Western countries like the United States may want to rethink their approach to constantly criticizing China over its human rights issues. Dr. Zhiquan Zhu is a professor of political science and international relations. He says that constantly denigrating China’s handling of human rights would be counterproductive: “In …

Amid these efforts, Tehran spent five months refusing even to participate in negotiations over the future of the deal, and when talks in Vienna finally resumed in late November, Iranian officials adopted even more outrageous demands than ‘previously insisting that before compromises could be abandoned and that the United States should be expected to lift …

The rare move against a close ally comes just days before the Jan. 30 deadline for the State Department to announce plans for the funds, which are the remaining part of a controversial $300 million aid tranche. which was split in September with just over half given to Egypt at the time and the remaining …

The European Union’s special envoy to Afghanistan “stressed the need for primary and secondary schools to be accessible to boys and girls across the country when the school year begins in March.” Taking to Twitter, EU envoy Tomas Niklassonn also said discussions during the Taliban delegation’s visit to Oslo earlier this week focused on the …

The intersection of compliance with environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) continues to drive many initiatives in both ESG and compliance. One of the key areas is in the corporate supply chain, particularly around human rights, human trafficking and modern slavery. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Law puts additional pressure on companies doing business with China …

SAN FRANCISCO – Human rights activists welcome what they see as increased US attention to Chinese behavior in its volatile regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, suggesting that lobbying by rights groups may have helped mounting pressure on Beijing. A law, a boycott and the appointment of a government official were added at the end of …

This column is an opinion of Michael Luba, a criminal lawyer in Ottawa. For more information on the CBC Opinion section, please see the FAQs. The question of whether to boycott Beijing 2022 – and if so, how – has loomed over the Games for years, with increasingly strong calls to action in recent months …

The daughter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accepted a European Union human rights award on her behalf on Wednesday. Daria Navalnaya delivered a speech to the European Parliament with a framed photo of her father beside her to accept the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, The Associated Press reported. Navalnaya said he asked …

The government will consider developing guidelines to prevent human rights issues related to business supply chains, said General Nakatani, adviser to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The guidelines would also help prevent Japanese companies from getting involved in such issues through their own supply chains or those of partners, said Nakatani, in charge of international human …

(Nairobi) – The Sudanese military leaders responsible for the October 25, 2021 takeover must respect and protect the rights of all Sudanese, including the right to life and to protest peacefully, Human Rights Watch said today. The military leaders, who have since dissolved the transitional government and imposed a state of emergency, must refrain from …

The IOC is rejecting calls to challenge China over its treatment of the Uyghur minority ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics next year. A senior official with the International Olympic Committee dismissed suggestions that China should be challenged for its human rights record ahead of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. IOC Vice President John …

Saudi human rights group ALQST accused the Premier League of being purely motivated by money and of using “deeply inadequate” criteria to assess human rights considerations in the aftermath of the war. acquisition of Newcastle United by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) – chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed …

NOTFailure to use people’s favorite pronouns is a human rights violation, a Canadian court ruled in a labor dispute. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled in favor of Jessie Nelson, a restaurant waitress from British Columbia who is biologically female but identifies as non-binary. Nelson, who instructed his colleagues to use the pronouns “they” …

This week, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released its annual global report assessing 131 countries and territories on their efforts to end the worst forms of child labor. The 1,365 page report found that while 79 countries had made moderate or significant progress towards ending child labor, 49 had made little or no progress. …