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The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrunk their territory from a 2.5 million acre expanse in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land south of Syracuse

With the Union Ministry of Home Affairs being ordered to prepare revised guidelines on media briefings by police personnel, we look at what the existing guidelines are and their shortcomings

Russia is on a mission to grab a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council - and to add insult to injury it’s using crops plundered from its illegal war to curry favour with potential backers, writes Arpan Rai

Seven candidates faced off at Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, with frontrunner Trump again choosing to skip. Plus, how New York is breaking free of Airbnb’s clutches

Two MPs distance themselves from home secretary’s talk of ‘existential challenge’ as she called for human rights reform

The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been awarded to two environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

Australia is willing to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in West Papua because alienating Indonesia is not worth the risk as China jostles for regional influence

Dress codes should not be imposed on women, spokesperson says, after Paris Games ban affecting French athletes

The ballot hadn't been expected until spring next year. But Egypt's National Election Authority announced this week that the country would be holding its presidential vote in December, amid its worst-ever economic crisis. The vote is already fraught with accusations of repression. Human rights groups say at least 35 opposition…