The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

A massive human rights rally taken out by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) at Kozhikode on Thursday expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine has turned into a subject of controversy over a word used by the rally’s chief guest Shashi Tharoor, MP.

There is a growing admission that existing guidelines are inadequate, with no single body to adjudicate the gross violation of children’s rights, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

Wesa, who travelled the country campaigning for girls to have access to education, freed after seven months in prison.

A campaign group supporting the baby’s family said an application to the European Court of Human Rights had been rejected.

A nonprofit organization in Afghanistan says the Taliban have freed an activist who campaigned for the education of girls

Activists deplore ‘distressing setback for equality’ as court backs law against ‘indecent acts’ between military personnel

Universities and mosques have been targeted by airstrikes in the latest conflict to erupt between Israel and Palestine

Indi Gregory’s parents have made an application to the European Court of Human Rights after losing life-support treatment fights in London.

Acting Chairman of State Human Rights Commission inaugurated 3-day golden jubilee celebrations of women's police station in Kozhikode. Seminars, exhibitions & cultural events held on issues involving children, women's safety & domestic violence. Inaugurated by Indira Gandhi in 1973, hailed as first such facility in Asia.