The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

ANY plans by the UK Government to ignore orders from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which would stop the illegal removal of migrants from…

Foreign secretary says UK should not want to club with Belarus and Russia in rejecting European human rights convention

A new bipartisan caucus in Congress is condemning the Iranian government over the recent poisoning of school girls in the country, amplifying the growing criticism in Washington against the Islamic Republic and its disregard for human rights

France's pioneering 2017 law that made French-based multinational companies responsible for human rights and environmental violations wherever they do business. Also, a Franco-Vietnamese theatre director brings Vietnamese history to life on stage. And the first same-sex marriage remembered 10 years after it became legal.

The UK has a duty to lead a campaign of international pressure, says Sudan human rights researcher Mohamed Osman

Leader of the Rapid Support Forces has used global public relations firms to convince observers he is a force for good.

Pair’s lawyer says supreme court’s decision highlights ‘need for much stronger protections of civil and human rights’

The Adelaide event begins on Friday, and is set to feature some of the world's top players, but human rights advocates have described the LIV Golf tour as a "blatant example of sportswashing".

Human rights experts fear perpetrators will not face justice for the hundreds of civilians murdered in the last fighting of the two-year war in Ethiopia

From Al Namani v. Watson, decided last year by Judge Daniel Klau (Conn. Super. Ct.), but just posted on Westlaw: General Statutes § 46b-115ii bars a Connecticut family court from enforcing a foreign court judgment that is "repugnant to the public policy of this state." Citing this statute, the respondent…

British officials are sounding the alarm over the widespread abuse of surveillance software and hackers-for-hire, saying that thousands of people were being targeted each year by an industry they described as posing an increasingly unpredictable threat.