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Let’s talk human rights with Facundo Chavez Penillas

By HRDI April 8, 2023Video Gallery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uviYZl2fuEs An accident at the age of 15 changed his life. Facundo Chavez Penillas, says, "there is no better way of promoting change than facing others with that otherness." Facundo,…

Leave no one behind: A human rights perspective for humanitarian responses’.

By HRDI April 7, 2023Video Gallery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udiuBDeyf0A Deputy High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), talks about the ‘leave no one behind’ initiative, which is central to both the Agenda for Humanity and the…

Pakistan: Content against minorities in textbooks has increased

By HRDI April 6, 2023Latest News

A Human Rights Observer 2023 fact sheet reveals that the religious content against minorities has increased in curriculum and textbooks during 2022 and a number of perennial and new challenges…

“Minorities Right to establish and administer educational institutions.. a critique”

By HRDI April 6, 2023Latest News

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."[1] As starting with this quotation relevance and proximity of education in individual' life can be counted. Indian constitution…

After 30 years, minorities still need to be seen and heard

By HRDI April 3, 2023Articles

“The world was full of hope,” said Paulo David, Head of UN Human Rights’ Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Section, during a virtual roundtable discussion on the adoption of the UN Declaration…

UN Human Rights expresses concern at the “continued erosion of the rule of law in Guatemala”

By HRDI April 3, 2023Articles

The UN's top official on fundamental guarantees calls the use of administrative and criminal proceedings against individuals involved in investigations "particularly worrying" The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights…

UN disability rights committee publishes findings on Angola, Argentina, Georgia, Peru, Togo and Tunisia

By HRDI March 30, 2023Latest News

GENEVA (29 March 2023) - The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) today issued its findings on Angola, Argentina, Georgia, Peru, Togo and Tunisia, after reviewing the six…

Volker Türk to Human Rights Council: No Country Can Claim to be Free of Racism and More Needs to be Done to Combat Systemic Racism and Discrimination that Permeate Social Structures, Institutions and Technologies

By HRDI March 30, 2023Latest News

Council Continues General Debate on Follow-Up to and Implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this afternoon told the…

Indian Courts Provide Government a Pathway on Rights

By HRDI February 28, 2023Latest News

Recent Rulings Criticize Police, Officials for Discrimination, Fabricated Charges India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government and its prominent supporters have been responding to recent international criticism of widespread discrimination…

Human Rights

By HRDI February 28, 2023Articles

Key facts The WHO Constitution (1946) envisages “…the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being.” Acknowledging health as a human right recognizes a legal…