Awareness

The International Day of Parliamentarism is celebrated every year on 30 June, the date in 1889 on which the Inter-Parliamentary Union was founded. The Day was established in 2018…
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According to the United Nations, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) is not just a document for persons with special needs; its principles and…
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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 2012 the UN General…
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