The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on El Salvador to protect the rights of three Salvadoran men deported by the United States

UN committee to consider claim by prominent Māori leader Tureiti Moxon that alleges government policies have harmed Indigenous people

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided over Labour’s immigration reforms. While many reluctantly accepted the need for tougher rules, others warned that plans to rewrite human rights laws and curb ECHR protections risk dragging the party too far to the right

Vegemite has been banned from prisons since 2006 due to it ‘interfering with narcotic detection dogs’

The Tories have pressed the Government to place China in the enhanced tier of the foreign influence registration scheme (Firs)

The Northern Ireland Troubles Bill is due for its second reading in the UK Parliament on Tuesday.

A human rights charity says unprecedented number have died in custody since the war began, and describes torture and medical neglect

A domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh has sentenced the country’s former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to death in absentia for crimes against humanity. The court found Hasina guilty of incitement, orders to kill and inaction to prevent atrocities during the deadly state crackdown on a student-led uprising in 2024.

Last year the head of Israel’s prison system boasted that he had degraded prison conditions to the legal minimum