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SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Thank you, everyone.  Thank you, and good morning again.  Thank you. So I again want to thank President Yoon and Foreign Minister Cho...

This year, at the United Nations’ top human rights body in Geneva, there are signs of a potential giant leap forward, with growing hopes...

“They held him there to send a message to the rest of us: be careful, or else.” A human rights activist from the Central...

Digital technologies are a vital resource for Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) and civic actors around the world.  However, these technologies can also be misused...

From 1819 to 1969, the United States federal government funded and operated 408 known “Indian boarding schools” with the express intent to “Kill the...

JPMorgan (JPM) faces a hefty fine of $348.2 million from the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for...

(New York, March 15, 2024) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to alert the Security Council in the coming days that Sudan...

A former member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Mito Kakizawa, received a two-year suspended prison sentence for illegal campaign finance activities in a...

A good starting point for the new Polish government to demonstrate it is serious about restoring the rule of law, which was eroded by...

EFG International AG, a Swiss-based global private banking group with around 40 subsidiaries worldwide, has agreed to pay $3,740,442 to settle potential civil liabilities...

On Wednesday 14 February 2024, 32 states signed the Ljubljana - The Hague Convention at the Peace Palace in The Hague. State Secretary for...

“The situation is getting worse every day,” Ahmad, a former journalist in Herat, Afghanistan, told me. “I don’t think anyone can afford to buy...

(New York) –Human Rights Watch announced today that it would be closing its long-running film festival. Founded in 1988, the Human Rights Watch Film...

Article 9(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849 mandates the identification of high-risk third countries with significant deficiencies in their anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism...