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Exclusive: Australia is seeking to strengthen ties with Indonesia, despite new reports of brutality by the military — including the torture and murder of civilians — in West Papua

September 27 will mark the beginning of a historic legal battle in the climate action movement. Six young people from Portugal will take 32 European governments to court for faltering on climate emissions goals, thus violating individuals’ human rights.

Home secretary warns treaties on migrants are ‘not fit for purpose’ in age of jet travel and smartphones

Human rights lawyers are working with Ukraine’s public prosecutor to prepare dossier to submit to the international criminal court

Six Portuguese children and young adults are set to take 32 European governments to court Wednesday for what they say is a failure to adequately address human-caused climate change in a violation of their human rights

As asylum-seekers stream in to New York City, officials have scrambled to open new emergency shelters

Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, Armenia's ambassador Andranik Hovhannisyan said that his country had previously warned of "looming ethnic cleansing" in Nagorno-Karabakh, stressing it was now "in progress". For Armenians, the recent attacks in the enclave have brought back bitter memories of the 1915…

India has hit out at Pakistan after the country's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar predictably raised the Kashmir bogey in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Read further on Dynamite News:

A prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people’s folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a U.S.-based foundation that works on human rights cases in China