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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…

Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the World’s Human Rights

By HRDI March 30, 2023Articles

RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE EXPOSES AN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM UNFIT TO DEAL WITH GLOBAL CRISES Amnesty International’s Annual Report for 2022 highlights double standards throughout the world on human…

Human Rights Violations Faced by Tibetans and Uyghurs Raised at UN Side-Event

By HRDI March 15, 2023Latest News

Geneva: On the sidelines of the ongoing 52nd UN Human Rights Council session, a side event was jointly organised at the UN by the Society for Threatened Peoples, Tibet Bureau-…

Curtain Raising Ceremony of C20 Working Groups of Human Rights as Human Values held on 18.02.2023

By HRDI March 10, 2023Curtain Raising Ceremony of C20 Working Group of Human Rights as Human Values partner with HRDI held on 18.02.2023, Video Gallery

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Curtain Raising Ceremony of C20 Working Groups of Human Rights as Human Values held on 18.02.2023

By HRDI March 10, 2023Curtain Raising Ceremony of C20 Working Group of Human Rights as Human Values partner with HRDI held on 18.02.2023, Video Gallery

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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…

Human Rights Council: Russia responsible for ‘widespread death and destruction’ in Ukraine

By HRDI February 28, 2023Latest News

Speaking only days since a large majority of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the UN chief stressed that Russia’s decision to go…

Care and support systems: A matter of Human Rights

By HRDI February 25, 2023Articles

“We need to radically reshape our understanding of support and care systems,” said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk in his statement to Member States on transforming support and care systems. “The…