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Women and girls in South Sudan are experiencing conflict-related sexual violence

UN report: ‘hellish existence’ for women and girls in South Sudan

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued a report on widespread and systematic conflict-related sexual violence...

Last update 15/4/2022
Ensure equal treatment for Roma fleeing Ukraine

Ensure equal treatment for Roma fleeing Ukraine

In relation to the International Roma Day (8th of April), many officials point out the situation of the Roma minority...

Last update 15/4/2022

The new edition of the Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child

The second edition (2022) of the Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child has been issued...

Last update 14/4/2022
GCHR Electoral Technical Assistance

Global Campus of Human Rights: Electoral Technical Assistance, application deadline 20 April 2022

The Global Campus of Human Rights organises a newly designed course - Electoral Technical Assistance training - that will take place from 6 to...

Last update 12/4/2022
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations.

UN General Assembly suspends Russia’s membership in the Human Rights Council

On 7 April 2022 the General Assembly adopted a resolution on the suspension of the rights of membership of the Russian...

Last update 11/4/2022
Liberties Media Freedom Report 2022

Liberties: Worrisome Decline in Media Freedom Across Europe (Media Freedom Report 2022)

The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties), in cooperation with Liberties member and partner organisations in 15 EU Member States,...

Last update 7/4/2022
Venice School for Human Rights Defenders - Global Campus of Human Rights

Global Campus of Human Rights: Venice School for Human Rights Defenders

The Global Campus of Human Rights Project Department in cooperation with the European Parliament organises the Venice School for Human Rights Defenders that...

Last update 7/4/2022
Prison cell

Death penalty should be abolished: Mass executions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt

While the world is focusing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, other serious violations of human rights continue to take place...

Last update 7/4/2022
Girls at school in Herat, Afghanistan

UN: Failure to re-open schools for all girls is deeply disappointing and damaging for Afghanistan

Despite the previous declaration, Taliban authorities at the last minute withdrew the decision on reopening the high schools for girls...

Last update 7/4/2022
Scholars at Risk

Scholars at Risk seminar series: ‘Human Rights in Afghanistan: Past, Present, and Future’

Scholars at Risk at the University of Padova, in collaboration with the SPGI (Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies...

Last update 4/4/2022
To The Righthouse - Podcast Sessions

Global Campus of Human Rights: ‘To The Righthouse’ podcast series

The Global Campus of Human Rights (GCHR) started a new initiative - a podcast series ‘To the Righthouse’, which is a platform...

Last update 4/4/2022
Implementing ECHR judgments: New factsheet on domestic violence cases

Implementing ECHR judgments: New factsheet on domestic violence cases

The Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has issued the...

Last update 4/4/2022
UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention

UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention

The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,...

Last update 31/3/2022
The Polish-Ukrainian border in Dorohusk-Jagodzin

FRA: Key fundamental rights risks at the EU-Ukraine borders

On 23 March European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a short report on the situation at the EU-Ukraine...

Last update 28/3/2022
A young migrant from Darfur waits to reach England from Calais, France.

OHCHR: UK border reform bill increases the risk of serious human rights violations

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urged the United Kingdom to reconsider proposed changes to its border...

Last update 25/3/2022