A recent Commonwealth workshop has bolstered the ability of the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone to better apply human ...

The 10th session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Businesses Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights (OEIGWG), took place in December 2024 in ...

The Madison Equal Opportunities Commission has extended the deadline for nominations for the annual Rev. James C. Wright ...

State lawmakers are one step closer to abolishing the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, the state’s independent watchdog ...

BMCHRC seeks nominees for their Human Rights Award, focusing on local civil rights efforts. Deadline: May 1, 2025.

The OKC Human Rights Commission is developing a decision-making process on when and how to publicly address human rights ...

An overview of the grounds of discrimination and the human right complaint process.

Three years after the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) found that eThekwini Municipality was in violation of the right to access clean drinking water, many residents continue to face ...

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Some members of the public have expressed concern that the Human Rights Commission Bill 2025 does not grant the Commission sufficient authority to effectively carry out its duties. A key concern ...

The bare power calculations of states’ national security, economic and diplomatic interests still present the primary challenge to compliance with human rights norms. But threats to the international ...