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Human resource management
Human resource management, also known as personnel management, is the strategic approach to employing, developing, and supporting people at work, covering recruitment, compensation, training, and employee relations.
Human resource management system
A human resource management system (HRMS) is software combining HR functions such as payroll, recruitment, benefits, and employee data, emerging from payroll systems of the late 1950s.
Human resource policies
Human resource policies, also called human resource management policies, are written rules an organization adopts to govern hiring, pay, leave, conduct, discipline, and safety, sitting between the employment contract and workplace law.
Human resources
Human resources (HR) is the organizational function responsible for managing people at work, including recruiting, pay and benefits, training, performance management, employee relations, and compliance with employment law.
Human Resources (TV series)
Human Resources is a Netflix adult animated workplace comedy spin-off of Big Mouth, co-created by Kelly Galuska, Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, and Mark Levin. It ran two seasons, March 2022 to June 9, 2023, following Hormone Monsters and other creatures guiding humans from puberty to old age.
Human resources for health
Human resources for health (HRH), also called the health workforce, is the stock of people engaged in protecting and improving health, a core building block of health systems.
Human rights
Human rights: rights held by every person, protected through the UN system (UDHR 1948, nine core treaties, ten treaty bodies, Universal Periodic Review) and three regional systems in Europe, the Americas, and Africa with courts and commissions of differing access rules.
Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir
Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir: documented violations since the 1989 insurgency by Indian security forces and militant groups, including killings, disappearances, torture, PSA/AFSPA detention, and post-2019 shutdowns.
Human Rights Act 1998
The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, letting people enforce Convention rights in British courts from 1 October 2000, with section 3 interpretation duties, section 4 declarations of incompatibility, and section 6 duties on public authorities.
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), founded as the Human Rights Campaign Fund in 1980 by Stephen Endean, is a leading US LGBTQ+ political advocacy organization, known for the Corporate Equality Index and Equality Voter mobilization.
Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day, observed 10 December, is the UN observance commemorating the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), established by resolution 423(V) in 1950; annual themes and the UN Human Rights Prize mark it.
Human rights in Cuba
Human rights in Cuba under the one-party Communist state: Freedom House scores 9/100, 1,161 political prisoners reported for 2024, restricted speech, assembly, judiciary, and medical-mission labor abuses.
Human rights in India
Human rights in India: constitutional Fundamental Rights, the NHRC (est. 1993), Hansa Mehta's UDHR role, the 1975-77 Emergency, and current assessments rating India Partly Free amid custody deaths, press-freedom decline, and AFSPA immunity concerns.
Human rights in Libya
Human rights in Libya: since 2011's division between the GNU in Tripoli and Haftar's LAAF, arbitrary detention, torture, resumed executions, militia abuses, and systematic violations against migrants persist with impunity.
Human rights in Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Human rights in Gaddafi-era Libya (1969-2011): political arrests, torture, disappearances, the 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre of over 1,200 prisoners, ICC referral in 2011, and US-UK rendition complicity.
Human rights in Myanmar
Human rights in Myanmar (Burma) collapsed after the February 1, 2021 military coup under Min Aung Hlaing: over 3.5 million displaced, mass airstrikes on civilians, Rohingya persecution, and junta-controlled 2025 elections.
Human rights in North Korea
Human rights in North Korea under Kim Jong Un's totalitarian one-party rule: UN-documented crimes against humanity, political prison camps, censorship of foreign media, songbun discrimination, forced labor, and restricted movement and escape.
Human rights in Qatar
Human rights in Qatar cover the hereditary emirate's political restrictions, kafala labor reforms for its 2 million migrant workers, male guardianship rules for women, criminalization of same-sex relations, and statelessness of the Ghufran clan.
Human rights in Russia
Human rights in Russia: constitutional guarantees under Chapter 2 versus reported systematic restrictions on speech, assembly, elections, and civil society, intensified after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Human rights in the Philippines
Human rights in the Philippines: record spans Marcos-era martial law abuses, Duterte's drug war with at least 8,663 official deaths and persistent impunity, red-tagging of activists, and Duterte's 2025 ICC arrest.
Human rights in the United Arab Emirates
Human rights in the United Arab Emirates: constitutional guarantees alongside severe restrictions on expression, mass trials of dissidents, kafala migrant labor abuses, banned unions, and resumed executions.
Human rights in the United States
Human rights in the United States, also called American civil liberties, rest on the Bill of Rights and civil rights statutes plus ratified ICCPR, CAT, and CERD treaties, with no single enforcement statute, no federal data protection law, and declining 2026 ratings.
Human rights in Turkmenistan
Human rights in Turkmenistan are severely restricted under one of the world's most closed authoritarian governments, with no political rights, no independent media, and widespread enforced disappearances.
Human rights lawyer
A human rights lawyer is a legal professional who uses impact litigation, fact-finding, and advocacy to defend rights, working across NGOs, courts, governments, and UN bodies.
Human Rights Quarterly
Human Rights Quarterly (HRQ) is a quarterly multidisciplinary human rights journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press, edited by Bert B. Lockwood at the University of Cincinnati's Urban Morgan Institute, the most productive human rights journal in Web of Science with 731 papers, 1990-2020.
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (Tribunal des droits de la personne de l'Ontario), quasi-judicial tribunal resolving discrimination and harassment claims under the Ontario Human Rights Code; one-year filing limit, mediation, summary and merits hearings, part of Tribunals Ontario.
Human rights violations against Palestinians by Israel
Human rights violations against Palestinians by Israel: documented movement restrictions, land confiscation, settlement expansion, demolitions, administrative detention, and Gaza hostilities; ICJ 2024 found the occupation unlawful, rights groups allege apartheid, Israel denies.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW), founded 1978 as Helsinki Watch, is an independent international NGO investigating human rights abuses in some 100 countries, refusing government funding, and advocating via naming and shaming.
Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites
Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites, UNESCO World Heritage site 1676, is a 2024 serial property of fourteen South African sites, including the Union Buildings, Sharpeville Sites, Liliesleaf and Constitution Hill, commemorating the anti-apartheid struggle.
Human sacrifice
Human sacrifice is the ritual killing of a person as an offering within a religious or ceremonial framework, documented across ancient Egypt, China, Mesoamerica, and the Andes.