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08.01.2024 Article

Reviewing the human rights situation – Germany in the Human Rights Council’s UPR process

The human rights situation in all United Nations Member States is regularly checked by means of the Universal Periodic Review process. On 9 November 2023, human rights in Germany were reviewed.

Article 1 of the Basic Law states that Human dignity shall be inviolable.

12.02.2022 Article

Red Hand Day – against the use of child soldiers worldwide

Some 250,000 children are being abused as soldiers around the world. Today’s International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers (Red Hand Day) is drawing attention to their plight. Germany is working with great determination to protect the rights of children and children in armed conflicts

18.11.2020 Article

Introducing the European Human Rights Ambassadors

Human rights matter. They matter whether we are in a pandemic or not.

28.02.2019 Article

Major humanitarian crisis in Yemen: Germany pledges support

Germany is helping to get supplies to people in need in Yemen. At the pledging conference held in Geneva on 26 February 2019, the Federal Government pledged 100 million euros.

Germany funds the work of aid agencies like Oxfam in Yemen.

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Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance

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Reviewing the human rights situation – Germany in the Human Rights Council’s UPR process

Red Hand Day – against the use of child soldiers worldwide

Introducing the European Human Rights Ambassadors

Major humanitarian crisis in Yemen: Germany pledges support

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Luise Amtsberg, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office, on Human Rights Day

Human Rights Commissioner Luise Amtsberg on the adoption of laws against UNRWA

Luise Amtsberg, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office, on World Food Day (16 October)

Human Rights Commissioner Amtsberg marks World Day against the Death Penalty

Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office on the anniversary of the Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan

Luise Amtsberg, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance, on the 10th anniversary of the genocide of the Yazidis

Luise Amtsberg, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office, prior to her trip to Iraq

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