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Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws

The Maduro regime is taking advantage of escalating tensions with the United States to further crack down on dissent, according to a new report.

Tens of thousands of South Korean children have been adopted overseas

South Korea’s government says it plans to end the waning foreign adoptions of Korean children

Sima Samar has spent a lifetime working for the ideals of a country that no longer exists, but even in exile she dreams of rebuilding for a second time

Leading human rights lawyer accuses government of ‘dismissive approach’ based on ‘ludicrous’ reasoning

As Canadian federal election candidates prepared for their final debate in April 2025, youth across the country were preparing for collaborative conversations around timely and potentially divisive issues for the National Ethics Bowl at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg.

A growing group has found community around Cincinnati. Trump’s ICE crackdown threatens to send them back to Mauritania, rife with human rights problems

The Department of Homeland Security has dropped its plan to deport a Chinese national who entered the country illegally after his plight raised public concerns that the man, if deported, would be punished by Beijing for helping expose human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region

Long sentences in case of Afro-Ecuadorian ‘Guayaquil Four’ focuses attention on president’s crackdown on crime

Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrants