Speech by Michael O’Flaherty delivered at the PACE side-event “For a Permanent Platform on Interreligious and ...

Speech by Michael O’Flaherty delivered at the PACE side-event “For a Permanent Platform on Interreligious and Inter-convictional Dialogue at the Council of Europe”, co-organised by the Committee for ...

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to new prime ...

Meta’s new content moderation policies remove hate speech protections for marginalized communities in contravention of its own human rights commitments. Zuckerberg’s announcement is premised on the ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

The Council today approved conclusions on the priorities of the European Union in United Nations Human Rights fora in 2025. The message from the conclusions is clear: the EU is committed to the ...

the same ground covered at least twice. Like Neville Roach, I worked for many years on multicultural affairs issues, before my appointment as Human Rights Commissioner. Back in 1995 I was the author ...

9 meeting of the Human Relations Commission, when Commissioner Donald Barr cited a letter that he had received from a resident referring to “hate speech” at the council meeting. Lythcott-Haims ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

While the interim government has made significant strides toward institutional accountability, Human Rights Watch warns that this progress could be jeopardized without swift and structural reforms ...

The Working Party on Human rights (COHOM) deals with human rights aspects of the external relations of the EU and supports the Council's decision-making process in this area. In addition, COHOM ...

The EFF are taking legal and ethical action against Kenny Kunene, deputy president of the Patriotic Alliance, following his ...