The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Sri Lanka says it will not accept any international investigation imposed by the U.N. Human Rights Council into alleged rights abuses during the country’s long civil war

Campaigners criticise failure of UN report to label China’s crackdown on Muslim minorities genocide

Tracy Westerman accuses West Australian authorities of having "a love affair with restricting human rights" as they consider a ban on most takeaway alcohol in the Kimberley and Pilbara.

Three in four Australians want a national human rights act and a majority want different cultures and ethnic groups to do more to fit in, a poll suggests.

Matt Bach has written to UN subcommittee about the ‘systematic’ isolation of youth detainees he says contravenes international law

THE Scottish Government has issued a lengthy attack on highly controversial legislation to replace the Human Rights Act, warning it is “harmful…

US forces established a third military base in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah on Saturday, a war monitor reported. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the new military base was set up in Naqara village, three kilometers southwest of Qamishli city in Hasakah province. The two other…

The Bill of Rights would make the UK Supreme Court the ultimate arbiter of human rights law in Scotland.

TOP human rights lawyers have been hired by an SNP MP as he continues his legal battle with the UK Government over secret polling on the union.