All news on the topic: Human rights

Britain’s most senior policeman said it was "absurd" that a court judgment handed down on Tuesday meant he could not sack serving officers who failed a vetting review, even if they had been accused of rape or other serious crimes.

Kyrgyzstan invited, then abruptly canceled—later calling it a postponement—a visit from the EU’s Human Rights Subcommittee amid growing concerns over political repression and media freedom.

Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance.

The vast amount of toxic waste in the area led to increased rates of cancer, the court found.

Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

In a chilling example of Russia’s political repression, Yury Dmitriev has been sent to solitary confinement, known as SHIZO, for allegedly failing to complete morning exercises.

Iran has broken its own record for executing the most women in one year, according to new figures.

Over the past 10 years, 86 students have been expelled, and 92 professors have been dismissed from Russian universities for political reasons...

Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.

Organized crime, systemic corruption, and a culture of machismo are fueling a devastating crisis for women and girls in Mexico, where only a tiny minority of human trafficking cases are investigated by authorities.

Move over European convention on human rights likely to put pressure on Tory leadership candidates to follow suit

Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south

The victims were aged between 14 and 16 at the time.

Human rights barrister says US expects Labour government to continue UK challenge to proposed action against Israeli PM

Parallel reports describe serious crimes during Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent offensive in Gaza

A Kyrgyz court ordered on Friday that four reporters, who were charged in January with “inciting mass unrest” through their investigative stories about corruption in the Central Asian country, remain in pre-trial detention until August 8, according to their editor, Bolot Temirov.

Tunisian courts convicted three media workers this week, amid what critics say is a wider crackdown on civil society by the government of President Kaïs Saïed.

On November 23, 2022, Russia’s State Duma banned the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among people of all ages.

In a session marked by yelling and physical confrontation, the Georgian Parliament adopted a law on Tuesday that opponents call the “Russian bill” and believe could dismantle civil society and divert the country from the European Union path.

UK government considers appeal after judge says act undermines post-Brexit human rights protections guaranteed in the region

Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’

Lindsay Sandiford may dodge a firing squad thanks to a change in the law in Indonesia wher she has been held since 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.6million of cocaine into the country

The Kremlin is forcing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to accept Russia passports, meaning they could also be conscripted and forced to fight against their countrymen in Vladimir Putin's war

Michael Gove said the Muslim Association of Britain, Cage and Mend and the neo-nazi British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative will be assessed for extremism

Liverpool's former captain has been a mainstay of Gareth Southgate's previous England squads for major tournaments - but will the experienced midfielder's ill-fated Saudi adventure cost him for Euro 2024?