OTTAWA, ON, June 3, 2026 /CNW/ - Recommendations released today in the Federal Housing Advocate's annual report call for the federal government to better incorporate human rights into its housing ...

Chairperson of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC), H E Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah said that the Convention on the Rights of ...

Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed positive changes by pushing for the adoption of international human rights ...

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...

Twenty-three human rights organizations and individuals, including Amnesty International, raised concerns about sex-based violence on Thursday. The report, titled “Forms of Sex-Based Violence Against ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged a rights-based approach in a letter on Friday to the newly appointed African Union (AU) Special Envoy for the Sahel, Burundi President H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye. HRW ...

United Nations member states unanimously adopted the sustainable development agenda in 2015. It aims to ensure development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of ...

Spurred by increasing public recognition of the dangers posed by police responses to mental health and substance use crises—particularly for people of color and individuals with ...