Rights Violations in a sentence

Last September, the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor launched a new reporting tool, the Human Rights Reporting Gateway, that enables the public to alert the government of serious human rights violations.

South Africa welcomes references to human rights in preambular paragraphs 17 to 20, however, we wish to reiterate that there is a need for a formal human rights mandate to strengthen the monitoring of possible human rights violations on all sides.

Human Rights Centre Memorial is a frontline human rights group in Russia, and particularly in the North Caucasus, which focuses on past and ongoing human rights violations.

She stressed that the initiative is based on combating human rights violations committed by the government, based on Article 27 contained in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution and Article 142 of the National Human Rights Commission.

The 274-page report says that there are "reasonable grounds to believe that the parties to the conflict in Yemen are responsible for an array of human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law.

Europe's top human rights court ruled Wednesday that it can adjudicate on cases brought by the Netherlands and for alleged rights violations in eastern in 2014, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.

In March 2022, Human Rights Watch wrote to al-Rumayyan requesting his response to allegations of serious human rights violations associated with the fund.

Ahead of Wednesday's vote, Human Rights Watch is urging the council to consider imposing an arms ban on the entire country to stop the ongoing rights violations and the suffering of the people.

The Minneapolis Police Department faces court-sanctioned oversight by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice for civil rights violations in the brutal killing of George Floyd in 2020.

The province pre-emptively used Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedom, known as the notwithstanding clause, to shield the legislation from any court challenges over fundamental rights violations.

The U.N.’s top human rights body called on countries to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel in a resolution passed Friday that aims to help prevent rights violations against Palestinians amid Israel’s blistering military campaign in Gaza.

Despite these challenges, every day, young people stand up for rights and against racism, xenophobia, hate speech, bullying, discrimination and other forms of human rights violations.

He also noted the administration has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials responsible for human rights violations and stopped U.S. tech companies from supplying equipment that’s “enabling” human rights abuses.

That plan was met with outcry from human rights advocates, who fear that such zones would be inaccessible to humanitarian workers and could become a backdrop for human rights violations by Turkish armed forces.

These review sessions offer civil society organisations a vital opportunity to hold their governments to account for their international human rights commitments and raise awareness of human rights violations in their countries.

The state’s Voting Rights Act creates a process for localities and residents alleging voting rights violations to negotiate potential changes to elections to avoid a court battle.

Myanmar’s government has rejected two reports presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably amounting to crimes under international law, in its repression of several minority groups.

On Monday, Human Rights Watch filed a complaint with Argentine prosecutors asking them to examine Mohammed's alleged responsibility for the torture of Saudi citizens and human rights violations in Yemen.

Since Sissi took power in 2014, rights groups have regularly accused his government of human rights violations and over the repression of dissidents.

The continued prevalence of human rights violations is worrisome as it impedes peaceful coexistence and free expression of citizens’ rights in democratic processes.