The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Immediately after the 2015 Paris attacks, French police were granted extra powers to search and detain people suspected of links to terrorism. Ten years later, many of these exceptional measures have become law and legislators continue to expand surveillance – steps that human rights experts say encroach on civil liberties…

Even as it claims to champion the stories of global injustice, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has struggled, if not refused, to meaningfully acknowledge Palestine for more than a decade.

Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms

Lawyers for Chaima Issa, a well-known Tunisian writer and human rights activist, say she was arrested at a protest in Tunis on Saturday as hundreds demonstrated against the curtailing of freedoms.

Ex-military officers who served in Argentina’s brutal dictatorship and their families have staged a rare rally to push for the release of fellow officers imprisoned for human rights abuses committed during the junta’s 1976-1983 rule

Staff at human rights body said to be ‘desperate for regime change’ over inertia after court’s legal definition of a woman

UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights

Up to 1,000 women globally await execution in prison, with mitigating factors such as child abuse and coercion ignored

International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) of using minerals tied to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.

The Scott Trust, sole shareholder of Guardian Media Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of internationally recognised technologist, researcher and human rights advocate Sam Gregory to its board.

Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups