The 50 countries expressed concern over the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang region and urged Beijing to act on the recommendations of a UN report alleging human rights violations Women and girls. In 2022, women and girls continued to face discrimination in law and in practice across the Middle East and North Africa, including in relation to the rights to inheritance, divorce, political representation and employment opportunities. Gender-based violence remained prevalent and was committed with impunity. The Security Council has requested an annual list of those responsible for grave violations against children in armed conflict since 2001. “The UN secretary-general simply refuses to hold to People can turn to the Canadian Human Rights Act to protect themselves against harassment or discrimination when based on one or more grounds of discrimination such as race, age and sexual orientation. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms of 1982 is part of Canada’s Constitution. The Charter protects every Canadian’s right to be The EU approves sanctions on Human Rights violations. The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures on eleven individuals and four entities responsible for serious human rights violations and abuses in various countries around the world. Together with the listing of four Russian individuals earlier this month, these 15 designations Submitting a complaint. If you are an alleged victim of a human rights violation, you can turn to one of three mechanisms to submit a complaint: Special Procedures, Treaty Bodies, or the Human Rights Council. Through addressing complaints, the mechanisms aim to ensure that violations are prevented, stopped, investigated or that remedial action Human rights in Cuba are under the scrutiny of human rights organizations, which accuse the Cuban government of committing systematic human rights abuses against the Cuban people, including arbitrary imprisonment and unfair trials. [1] [2] [3] International human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have [30] European Commission Press Release IP/20/1939, Sanctions and Human Rights: towards a European framework to address human rights violations and abuses worldwide (Oct. 19, 2020), Freedom House ranks each of these five countries, as well as Gabon, as “not free.” Reporters Without Borders, in its 2020 World Press Freedom Index, ranks China 177th out of 180 countries, Cuba 171st, Pakistan 145th, Russia 149th, Uzbekistan 156th, and Gabon 121st. China may constitute the most egregious human rights abuser among the five. t5fH0.

list of countries by human rights violations