All news on the topic: Human rights

A relentless crackdown over the past 18 months has eradicated any semblance of independent media from authoritarian Azerbaijan.

For more than ten years, ’Pravfond’ has been offering legal assistance to Russians worldwide. Internal emails obtained by journalists reveal how it worked together with spies, financed propaganda initiatives, and established points of influence along the way.

As part of a comprehensive reform of its deportation and migration policies, the EU is suggesting the deportation of asylum seekers to nations the bloc has labeled as "safe third countries," which include Tunisia and Egypt.

From electrocution to decapitation, migrant workers on Saudi World Cup construction projects face deadly conditions amid a persistent lack of transparency and accountability.

The 69-year-old dad is alleged to have drugged his daughters, aged 36 and 38, before tying them down and raping them over a period of several months, Brazil police have said

Amnesty International’s annual report cautions that President Trump’s anti-rights campaign is speeding up authoritarianism and worldwide repression, further exacerbating the decline of international law.

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah, tells that the West must establish a “strike fund” to support civil resistance and incapacitate the government.

Billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s appeal against a Swiss corruption conviction, involving bribing Guinea’s former first lady for mining rights, has been unsuccessful.

After a week of unprecedented tariffs, stock market chaos and political upheaval, thousands of demonstrations are set to take place across the US today.

Donald Trump has brought back a wartime law from 1798 to speed up mass deportations.

Prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms continuing to take their own lives, say campaigners, as government resists calls to re-sentence them

Two children are killed each week in the West Bank. Two cameras recorded the circumstances of one such death.

Two university students have been flogged 185 times with rattan sticks in Indonesia for engaging in same-sex sexual relations.

Leaked audio instructions by Greek rescue co-ordinators have cast further doubt on Greece’s official version of events in the hours before a migrant boat sank along with up to 650 people onboard.

Gaza ceasefire seems to be holding, but it’s unclear if the exchange will involve all 602 Palestinian prisoners who were scheduled for release on Saturday.

A fleet of Chinese fishing vessels allegedly subjected their North Korean crew members to forced labour conditions and severe restrictions, a British environmental group claimed in a report on Monday.

Riyadh is emerging as a new center of political influence. On Feb. 18, the Saudi capital hosted the first meeting between Russian and U.S. delegations regarding the war in Ukraine.

An investigation by The Wall Street Journal proved that Russia’s inhumane treatment and torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not “sporadic irregularities” but a consistent policy of the country’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), carried out on the orders from the very top.

A young Afghan refugee files a case after a decision to block citizenship for those who arrived via a ’dangerous journey’.

The most senior judge in England and Wales has said she was "deeply troubled" by comments made by Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch over a judge’s ruling in an immigration case.

An investigation has revealed the tech firm’s collaboration with authoritarian regimes to eliminate unfavorable content.

Comments by the US vice president, part of a wide-ranging tirade against Europe, have been called inaccurate and misogynistic.

Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to "crimes against humanity", the UN has said.

MI5 misled three courts while defending its management of a misogynistic neo-Nazi state agent who assaulted his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC can reveal.