The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

"I couldn't breathe before, and now they will try to strangle my throat"

“The enactment of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act is a tragic violation of universal human rights," the president said, while suggesting possible sanctions.

The bill, signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality. It drew swift condemnation from rights groups around the world.

Uganda has implemented one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, drawing widespread Western condemnation and outraging activists at home.

The new legislation is one of the world’s strictest anti-gay measures and was condemned by the international community.

The race discrimination commissioner warns against making race the focus of debate on the Voice to Parliament, as opponents claim it will "re-racialise" the nation.

Letter says climate threat is the greatest emerging threat to human rights.

Violence by armed gangs has fallen "drastically" since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday.

Sydney man Mohammad Hashemi's cousin Majid Kazemi was executed after a "forced confession and sham trial". He says if the Australian government is serious about stopping the Islamic Republic's human rights abuses, it will cut ties with Iran and list their military arm as a terrorist organisation.

Human rights activists in Poland say a group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum, including small children, has been stuck at Poland’s border wall with Belarus for three days

Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan came down heavily on the BJP government at the Centre for its “blatant denial of the secular nature of the country.”