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🚨 #BreakingNews! The #UnitedNations Human Rights Committee has, for the first time, issued #interimmeasures directing Malta to coordinate an immediate #search-and-rescue operation for 32 individuals in distress near the #Miskar gas platform.
📌 UpRights and StraLi are pleased to share the publication of the latest issue of Echoes – Platform of Hope, by the Civil Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (Civil MRCC).
May 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
⌛ Last week, #UpRights and @trialinternational.bsky.social have released “The Congolese Justice System and Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects,” a report on the fight against #impunity for international crimes in the #DRC.
April 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🗓️ Yesterday, April 9, 2025, Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRA) released its ‘Practitioner’s Guide to Addressing Alleged Serious Human Rights Violations and International Crimes Committed by the IRGC in Iran and Abroad’.
April 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🎯 Today, @trialinternational.bsky.social, @civitasmaxima.bsky.social,
@cja-news.bsky.social, @ecchr.bsky.social, @fidh-official.bsky.social, and @redress.org, published the 11th edition of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR).

#Read more here: www.uprights.org/2025/04/08/u...
April 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🗓️ On 27 March 2025, #UpRights co-hosted the conference “The Role of Transitional Justice in Ukraine: National and Local Dimensions” in Kyiv.

Read more here: www.uprights.org/2025/04/07/t...
The Role of Transitional Justice in Ukraine
On March 27, 2025, UpRights co-hosted the conference “The Role of Transitional Justice in Ukraine: National and Local Dimensions” in Kyiv.
www.uprights.org
April 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨 #BreakingNews! The #UnitedNations Human Rights Committee has, for the first time, issued #interimmeasures directing Malta to coordinate an immediate #search-and-rescue operation for 32 individuals in distress near the #Miskar gas platform.
March 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
📃 #UpRights’ legal advisors, Ciara Laverty and Vy Azmi, recently provided #commentary in a feature published by
@nknewsorg.bsky.social

🔎 Read more here: www.nknews.org/2025/03/a-no...
A North Korean POW wants to resettle in the South. The law may stand in the way. | NK News
A North Korean prisoner of war (POW) taken by Ukraine has expressed a desire to resettle in the South rather than be repatriated to his home country, where he could face punishment for his capture.  T...
www.nknews.org
March 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
☘️ #UpRights is pleased to continue its collaboration Global Standard, the nonprofit behind the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), on a new project supported by an ISEAL Innovations Fund Impulse Grant.
February 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#UpRights welcomes the publication of @ilgaeurope.bsky.social Annual #Review of the Human Rights Situation of #LGBTI People in Europe and Central Asia.

Read the full report here: www.ilga-europe.org/report/annua...
Annual Review 2025 | ILGA-Europe
The 14th edition of our Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People in Europe and Central Asia.
www.ilga-europe.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🧵 #UpRights examines legal questions arising from #Ukraine’s capture of #North #Korean soldiers fighting alongside #Russian forces in a new post for
@opiniojuris.bsky.social by Nurul M. Azmi and Ciara Laverty.
February 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📌 In response to the impact of the conflict in Ukraine, a new initiative under the Restoring Dignity and Justice in Ukraine program is helping Ukrainian civil servants address the challenges of post-conflict recovery.
December 18, 2024 at 10:38 AM
🗓️ On December 16, 2024, hashtag#UpRights will co-host the #webinar “North Korea and Russia: Complexities of Perpetration, Victimhood, and Accountability in Armed Conflicts” alongside the @nkdb.bsky.social, the Public Interest Journalism Lab, and The Reckoning Project.
December 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM
#UpRights welcomes the submission by Amnesty International to the ICC on behalf of several victims’ networks, requesting an end to the ICC Prosecutor’s #delay in opening an #investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in #Nigeria.
December 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM
🗓️ On Friday, November 22, UpRights’ Co-Director valerie gabard took part in a #conference on corporate human rights due diligence co-hosted by the University of Nîmes, Juristes sans Frontières, and with the support of the Montpellier, Nîmes and Alès Bar associations.
November 27, 2024 at 10:03 AM
🗓️ On November 22, 2024, #UpRights Co-Director valerie gabard will take part in a #conference on corporate human rights #duediligence co-hosted by the University of Nîmes, Juristes sans Frontières and with the support of the Montpellier, Nîmes and Alès Bar associations.
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
🗓️ Today, Tuesday 19 November, Global Standard, the non-profit that manages the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), released its Due Diligence hashtag #Handbook for Auditors Version 1.0.
November 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM