Sources: Global Post
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. 2024-09-1
Lawyers and human rights organisations in Israel receive dozens of complaints from Palestinian workers and students who have been suspended from schools, universities and workplaces over social media posts or conversations with colleagues. 2023-10-15
Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her support of feminism and human rights. 2023-10-6
Judge Paul Golspring of the Westminster Magistrates' Court refers to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to sign an extradition order to the United States for Julian Assange in relation to WikiLeaks concerning human rights abuses in the Guantanamo detention camp and the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan. 2022-04-20
After the conviction of serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga, Mohammad Idris, the mayor of Depok, West Java, Indonesia, says he plans to raid the local LGBT community and is condemned by human rights activists. 2020-01-14
Eleven (11) of 15 United Nations Security Council members approve placing North Korea's human rights record on the Council's agenda. Russia and China oppose the decision while Chad and Nigeria abstain. This is the first time this issue has been debated by the Security Council. Procedurally, once a topic makes the agenda, that issue can be brought up again at any time. 2014-12-22
Three Venezuelan hunger strikers are hospitalised after calling for an international probe into alleged human rights abuses by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. 2011-02-21
2011 Syrian protests: Social media mobilises the people of Syria for rallies demanding freedom, human rights and the end to emergency law, scheduled for Friday and Saturday in front of the parliament in Damascus and at Syrian embassies internationally. 2011-02-3
The trial of eight police officers charged with the murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2010-11-12
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch a Free Trade Area. 2010-01-1