Awareness

One of the main ways of safeguarding human rights at both a domestic and an international level is by means of independent, non-governmental, international investigations of human…
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According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), in many countries more than half of workers are employed in the informal sector with no social protection giving them access to…
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In this report, the Omani Center for Human Rights reviews the ways in which Omani law discriminates against women and LGBT people. Due to the sensitivity surrounding these topics,…
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The United Nations maintains the basic principle that democracy and human rights are linked. The Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says that respect for…
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Although all human beings have the right to have their human dignity preserved, the Omani authorities violate this right along with several other fundamental human rights, such as…
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Because of persistent misconceptions about mental illness and intellectual disability, around the world hundreds of thousands of men, women and children with mental health…
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Many rights groups hold the view that cybersecurity is the new battlefield for human rights. One such group, the Association for Progressive Communications, notes that in his first…
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The Omani Centre for Human Rights (OCHR) today, 6 February, affirms its condemnation of the violation of the human rights of girls and young women in Oman. In…
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In 1993, the UN General Assembly issued a Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which it defined as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is…
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Every year the international community observes 10 December as Human Rights Day, marking the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration…
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