The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Amid the tense political atmosphere gripping France as the pension reform crisis continues, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Wednesday became the latest member of the Macron government to criticise the Human Rights League, one of France’s oldest NGOs, even accusing it of taking an “ambiguous” stance on Islamism in recent…

The joint select committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice referendum is holding a public hearing in Canberra as part of its inquiry.

The United States is warning Mali’s military government that it would be “irresponsible” for the United Nations to continue deploying its more than 15,000 peacekeepers unless it ends restrictions including on operating reconnaissance drones

The Middle Eastern nation is likely to play a role in the sport going forward. The WTA and ATP will have to decide how large that role is.

The Inter American Commission on Human Rights is urging the government of El Salvador to restore all the rights suspended under an “emergency” anti-gang decree that is now entering its second year

A human rights group says the father of a a Russian girl sent to an orphanage after drawing an antiwar sketch at school has been extradited from Belarus back to Russia

The brutal war in Ukraine is now over a year old. While estimates of the numbers of civilians killed and injured vary, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has estimated that 8,317 civilians have been killed and a further 13,892 injured from the beginning of the war…

The measure will last for six months and include the redistribution of migrants across the country and repatriations.

Ma Zhaoxu, the vice minister of foreign affairs, met with DFAT secretary Jan Adams in Canberra to discuss topics the countries rarely see eye-to-eye on.