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The human rights watchdog also noted that a change in the definition could be ‘more ambiguous or potentially disadvantageous’ in other areas of life.

Israel is holding over 1,000 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2003, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday. Israel says the controversial tactic, known as administrative detention, helps authorities thwart attacks and hold dangerous militants without divulging incriminating material for security reasons. Palestinians and rights…

A TOP human rights lawyer has intervened amid outrage after a child rapist was spared jail for his “horrific” crime.

The Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations, or Rasd Coalition, accused the Iran-backed Houthi militias of committing war crimes for their forced recruitment of children under 15. In a report, “Children Not Soldiers”, it also accused them of committing serious crimes against children and violating the rules of warfare…

The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths

Human rights groups have applauded Malaysia’s move to scrap the mandatory death penalty as a major step forward in the push for the abolition of capital punishment in Southeast Asia

Dr Anthony Bell is acquitted of assaulting his wife during an argument over another woman last year, as the judge suggests Rabia Siddigue had "engaged in a vendetta" against her husband.

Palestinian human rights lawyer and former diplomat Ghaith al-Omari, a prominent advocate of the two-state solution and negotiations with Israel, gave FRANCE 24 a lengthy interview on a recent visit to Paris. In this second of a two-part series, he lamented the Palestinian Authority’s stagnation under longstanding President Mahmoud Abbas.

Traditional owners of the Tiwi Islands have lodged human rights grievances against 12 banks for their involvement in a $1.5 billion loan to Santos for its Barossa offshore gas project.