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Eighteen influential Iranian women living in the West, published an open letter to Fifa on Friday calling on the organisation that governs international football to help put an end to a decades-old ban on women attending male sporting events in Iran....

The Human Rights Commission said the Bermuda Government can cater for both the rights of the gay community and those with competing views in the church. The HRC gave its backing to the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse the ban on same-sex marriage,...

The 50th anniversary of the island’s first election under universal adult suffrage will be commemorated next week. Island residents will be invited to cast a vote of thanks at City Hall on Tuesday to mark the General Election held on May 22, 1968. ...

Freedom Day is April 27 in South Africa, marking the republic’s first democratic General Election in 1994. That milestone came after decades of struggle both at home and abroad; success coming at great cost, with extensive imprisonment and numerous l...

Tough new rules to crack down on sexual harassment at work are in the pipeline. Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said yesterday that he wanted to introduce new labour laws to combat the problem. Mr Brown is to bring London-based feminist M...

Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda is to offer restorative practices facilitator training to members of the public in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission. There will be two, one-day workshops titled: Introduction to Restorative Practices...

The island’s tourism quango yesterday distanced itself from a letter from chief executive Kevin Dallas to warn senators that a vote to end gay marriage would adversely affect visitor numbers. Tourism minister Jamahl Simmons also criticised Mr Dallas ...

The man whose court victory paved the way for same-sex marriage in Bermuda said it would be a “monumental symbol” if the Governor refused to give assent to an Act designed to replace same-sex marriage with watered-down domestic partnerships. Winston...

The Bermuda National Gallery has teamed up with the Human Rights Commission to commemorate United Nations Human Rights Day. The public are invited to attended a free celebration and support students who will be giving presentations on art and activis...

Immigration legislation to “protect Bermuda for Bermudians” was passed in the House of Assembly last night despite vocal opposition. The new laws give the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act priority over the Human Rights Act. Walton Brown, the Mi...

The Human Rights Commission has been invited to make submissions over controversial amendments to immigration legislation. The HRC and home affairs minister Walton Brown released a joint statement yesterday, in which they said they had held “candid a...

Bermuda’s civil liberties watchdog called on the Government to ditch “reckless” plans to undermine human rights laws yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Human Rights Commission warned that watering down the supremacy of human rights legislation over imm...