The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Formula One faces a legal complaint accusing it of breaching OECD guidelines after the sport concluded a deal this year extending its contract to hold races in Bahrain until 2036

Residents of Qatar face the risk of persecution if they show their support for LGBTQ+ rights during the World Cup, Human Rights Watch has warned

Players called for the decriminalization of all same-sex relationships as a lasting legacy of the controversial tournament

Canada has repatriated two women and two children from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected ISIS militants, and charged one with supporting terrorism, officials said Wednesday. This followed years of pressure on Ottawa -- which long refused for security reasons to repatriate as many as 50 Canadians believed…

More than 250 literary figures protest against acquisition by Penguin Random House of book by conservative US supreme court justice

Players from their World Cup squad appear in a video condemning the country's record on human rights

The Australian men’s soccer team has issued a three-minute video highlighting Qatar’s human rights record involving the treatment of foreign workers and restrictions on the LGBTQI+ community and demanding genuine reform as a legacy of the Gulf country’s staging of the World Cup

Advertisers trim budgets amid jitters over World Cup host’s human rights record and appearing ‘tone-deaf’ to austerity

The Equality and Human Rights Commission stressed uniform policies that ban certain hairstyles without exceptions on racial grounds “are likely to be unlawful”