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FRA: Fundamental Rights Report 2022

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has issued its Fundamental Rights Report 2022. The report reviews major developments...

Last update 4/7/2022
A Rohingya boy watches soldiers patrol his camp in Sittwe, May 13, 2013.

Human Rights Watch in Myanmar: The Rohingya’s Decade of Detention

The Myanmar authorities have detained over 135,000 Rohingya and Kaman Muslims arbitrarily and indefinitely in Rakhine State for a decade,...

Last update 3/7/2022
Migrants’ makeshift shelters in the city of Agadez.

IOM Study: Women and Girls Most Trafficked in Niger

Women and girls constitute 69% of victims and survivors of trafficking in Niger, according to a new study by the...

Last update 2/7/2022

CoE: Updated thematic factsheet on freedom of religion

The Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (Execution Department) has published an updated...

Last update 1/7/2022
A sea rescue by the Sea-Watch team

FRA: Migrant search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean updated

Since January, on average 5 people have died per day crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. On World Refugee...

Last update 30/6/2022
Domestic violence: Countries should improve child custody safety and victim protection

GREVIO: Domestic violence - countries should improve child custody safety and victim protection.

The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO), which monitors the...

Last update 29/6/2022
It is estimated that 160 million children were engaged in child labour globally at the beginning of 2020.

International Organization for Migration (IOM): Expanding Evidence Base on Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Human Trafficking

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) join forces to...

Last update 28/6/2022

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): Criminal detention conditions database updated

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has published its updated online criminal detention database. For the first time,...

Last update 28/6/2022
Displaced families in Kiwandja, Rutshuru territory in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

UNICEF: A record 37 million children displaced worldwide

Conflict, violence and other crises left a record 36.5 million children displaced from their homes by the end of last...

Last update 28/6/2022

UN Human Rights Annual Report 2021: Global upheaval deepened inequalities

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued its annual report. The Human Rights Report...

Last update 25/6/2022
New ILO database highlights labour market challenges of persons with disabilities

New ILO database highlights labour market challenges of persons with disabilities

There are an estimated 1 billion persons with disabilities around the world or 15% of the global population. Most of...

Last update 25/6/2022
An elderly woman sits alone on a bench near a pond in Thailand

New UN guide aims to tackle growing problem of elder abuse

Every year, 1 in 6 people aged 60 years and older experience some form of abuse – a trend that...

Last update 25/6/2022

SR on Climate Change – NHRIs Roundtable Consultation, registration deadline 21 June

The UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change, in partnership with The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), is...

Last update 17/6/2022
Only in exceptional circumstances and with incontrovertible evidence of intentional murder does international law permit the death penalty

OHCHR welcomes progress made in Zambia and Central African Republic to abolish the capital punishment

The death penalty is incompatible with fundamental tenets of human rights and dignity. Nowadays approximately 170 countries have abolished capital...

Last update 17/6/2022
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Amnesty International Global Report: Death sentences and executions 2021

According to the newly published Global Report on death sentences and executions 2021 of Amnesty International, at least 579 executions...

Last update 16/6/2022