The Council of Europe

Environmental Protection: A Human Rights Approach

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled on over 300 environment-related cases, applying the rights to life, respect for private and family life, freedom of expression and assembly, a fair hearing ...
Independent Newspaper Nigeria on MSN

Drug crises: NHRC calls for human rights-based approach to Nigeria

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday, raised the alarm over what it describes as alarming levels of drug abuse among young Nigerians, warning that the country’s response to the crisis ...
Jurist

UN experts say COP30 must use human rights approach in climate action

Experts for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Monday that countries at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) must advance human rights and ...
Independent Newspaper Nigeria on MSN

Prof. Olawuyi calls for rights-based food security approach at UN Human Rights Council

Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, Professor Damilola Olawuyi (SAN), has urged governments, agribusinesses and other stakeholders in the food sector to adopt ...
Human Rights WatchOpinion

Three Years After the EU-Tunisia Deal, Review EU Approach Toward Tunisia's Human Rights Decline

We are writing to you three years after the signing of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 16 July 2023, to ...
Mongabay

The cost of conservation without consent: Astrid Puentes on rights-based environmentalism

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...
Human Rights Watch

Benchmarked Approach on Human Rights and Accountability for the EU’s Reengagement in Ethiopia

We write to encourage the European Union and its member states to consider specific, measurable, and ambitious recommendations and indicators when assessing progress in the achievement of the three ...
Project Syndicate

A Human-Rights Approach to the Global Food Crisis

Brazil has shown how popular resistance can galvanize support for policies and programs that enshrine the right to food and nutrition. To reduce acute hunger worldwide, it will be essential for ...
Psychology Today

Human Rights and Public Health

One of the most important intellectual strands in public health over the last century has been the development of a health and human rights approach. This approach reflects the understanding that ...
Psychology Today

Granting Rights to Animals Doesn't Undermine Human Rights

Many people, including animal advocates and others who want to grant legal rights (including personhood) to nonhuman animals, are often criticized for their views because others fear it will diminish ...
University of Dayton

Human Rights Center

The University of Dayton has a history of focus on human rights. Since 1997, we have held global conferences on emerging human rights and humanitarian issues, and established the Human Rights Center ...