In 2023, an amendment to the Act required Suhakam to have a minimum of seven commissioners. The amendment also introduced a ...

When asked what it had done in response to human rights violations during martial law, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea said that it had issued a recommendation to prevent the ...

The island needs a “clear, measurable road map” in the form of a national disability strategy to guide inclusion efforts ...

Many rights defenders, including this newspaper, have called for the revival and proper empowerment of these organisations, ...

Iftekharuzzaman stated that without the Information Commission, citizens have no avenue to seek redress from the highest authority when access to official information is denied.

May 31, 2024. Dear Ms. Cynthia Radert, Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the lack of independence in the work of Rwanda’s National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR, or “the Commission ...

Indian human rights officials investigate reports hundreds of schoolchildren fell sick from meals that contained dead snake ... according to the country’s National Human Rights Commission ...

The United Nations agency for refugees (UNHCR) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to increase advocacy and other measures ...

South Korea’s commitment to equal rights has suffered a dangerous setback with the appointment of Ahn Chang-ho as chairperson of the government’s National Human Rights Commission of Korea.

The Vermont Human Rights Commission has not been able to keep pace with a record number of discrimination complaints this year. It is pushing for nearly $900,000 in new state funding — which ...