High Commissioner for Human Rights

OPINION: Stand in Solidarity with Courageous Women’s Human Rights Defenders

By Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
Almost two decades ago, in Beijing, 189 countries made a commitment to achieve equality for women, in practice and in law, so that all women could at last fully enjoy their rights and freedoms as equal human beings.

Civil Society Freedoms Merit Role in Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Mandeep S.Tiwana
Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, an advocacy NGO, is facing criminal charges for sending a tweet that said: “many Bahrain men who joined terrorism and ISIS have come from the security institutions and those institutions were the first ideological incubator”.


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