Stories about Menschenrechte

Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte

EU-Member states should agree to EU Due Diligence Directive

Berlin (ots) - The German Institute for Human Rights urges the German Government and all other EU member states to vote in favour of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in the final vote on 9 February. The EU directive is critical to safeguard and protect human rights and the environment in global supply chains. After lengthy negotiations, the CSDDD may now fail due to disagreements within the ...

Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma

Architect Daniel Libeskind awarded the European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma

Press release, 17/10/2023 Architect Daniel Libeskind awarded the European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma Lock-up period: Wednesday, October 18th, 4 p. m. The American architect Daniel Libeskind will be awarded the European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma on October 18, 2023, in ...

terre des hommes Deutschland e. V.

Celebratory launch with children worldwide: United Nations officially recognise children's right to a healthy environment

Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - Today, children across the world will come together to mark the launch of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s guidance which, for the first time, recognises children’s right to a clean, healthy and ...

terre des hommes Deutschland e. V.

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on states to take action in first guidance on children's rights and the environment, with a focus on climate change

GENEVA/NEW YORK (ots) - Today, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child published authoritative guidance to States on what they must do to uphold children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. In the face of the ...

Mark Fenwick Management - London

Roger Waters: Antisemitism is odious, and I condemn it

London (ots) - Statement by Roger Waters on antisemitism, his criticism of the Israeli government and freedom of speech Statement by Mr George Roger Waters dated 16.03.2023: “My lawyers are taking steps to ensure that my concerts in Munich and Frankfurt in May 2023 take place as contracted. Human rights and freedom of speech for all peoples under German law must prevail, which is why I’m taking this stance to ensure ...

News Direct

Global Leaders Decry the Trivialization and Hijacking of the ‘Apartheid’ Label to Attack the Jewish State

Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte

States must continue to offer protection to particularly vulnerable Afghans

Berlin (ots) - The German Institute for Human Rights strongly recommends that all states involved in the Afghanistan operation, including Germany, provide protection to local staff and particularly vulnerable Afghans. Using Germany as an example, the recently published publication "Responsibility for basic and human rights following the withdrawal from Afghanistan“ ...

Pro-Bono-Initiative Händler helfen Händler

Job-Platform jobaidukraine.com launched to help refugees from Ukraine

Berlin (ots) - The German initiative ‘Händler helfen Händlern’ presents jobaidukraine.com, a free job platform that aims to give refugees from Ukraine a foothold in Germany. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, more than 1.5 million people have fled. This is the estimate of the UN refugee agency UNHCR and this number could rise as high as ...

Diplomatic Council - Diplomatischer Rat

The Western Fiasco: Failure in Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine

News Direct

International Association of Political Consultants Democracy Medal Presented to Women of Belarus at recent ceremony

Vienna (ots) - --News Direct-- Former International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC) President Sepp Hartinger accompanied by IAPC member Christoph Hofinger and Secretary General of the Austrian Journalists Club, Barbara Meister presented the Democracy Award to Swiatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Veronica Tsepkalo ...

TeachTheChildrenInternational

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Child soldiers, rape, militia selling EU relief supplies to finance their own luxury – the forgotten Polisario terror at the gates of Europe flares up again

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

The Atlas of the Stateless

Geneva (ots) - The Geneva office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is today publishing the Atlas of the Stateless (French, English). It will be presented in an online conference, in which the authors of the atlas and members of the UN refugee agency will participate. The Atlas of the Stateless, which is now published in three languages (French, English and German), is a unique compilation of information on a subject that has been relatively little researched, namely the ...

Legal Team Armenia

The European Court of Human Rights requests the Government of Armenia to ensure adequate medical treatment to illegally detained former statesman Gagik Khachatryan

European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

INVITATION: Edward Snowden in conversation with Wolfgang Kaleck - Law versus Power / 19 January, San Francisco

Berlin (ots) - Why is resistance against authoritarian tendencies more important than ever? Famed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and internationally renowned lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck discuss this question and talk about today's challenges and opportunities for human rights. When: Saturday, 19 January 2019, noon - ...

Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker e.V. (GfbV)

Criticism of the growing influence of authoritarian state / Consultative status of human rights group under fire at the United Nations

Göttingen/Bozen (ots) - The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has warned against restricting the freedom of independent non-governmental organizations at the United Nations (UN). "The influence of authoritarian states in the world organization continues to grow. Non-governmental organizations must not be ...

European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

ECCHR: Expulsions conducted by Spain at the EU's external borders violate the European Convention on Human Rights

Berlin (ots) - Spanish authorities systematically and often violently expel refugees and migrants at the border with Morocco. This long-standing practice of push-backs at the external borders of the European Union (EU) is unlawful. Automatic expulsions violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as the ...

Helaba

Helaba commits itself to the principles of the UN Global Compact

Frankfurt am Main (ots) - Helaba has signed a declaration on the implementation of the UN Global Compact's ten principles for corporate sustainability in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. In so doing, it has committed itself to supporting and promoting the principles. Herbert Hans Grüntker, the Chairman of Helaba's Board of ...