The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Egyptian authorities prevented Alaa Abd el-Fattah from attending human rights awards in London

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities committed last month by paramilitary forces fighting the army

European lawmakers have backed the weakening of flagship EU environmental and human rights rules as part of a drive to slash red tape for businesses. The move will free many corporations from the obligation to fix human rights and environmental issues in their supply chains or face EU fines.

Juan Ponce Enrile, the Philippine defense chief during a martial-law era notorious for human rights atrocities, democratic setbacks and plunder who later broke off from dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a schism that eventually led to the latter’s overthrow in a 1986 “people power” uprising, has died

Human rights lawyer who helped to expand Britain’s Race Relations Act and investigated apartheid in South Africa

Shawan Jabarin says US colleagues and funders have distanced themselves from West Bank-based Al-Haq over the sanctions

New analysis published in the BMJ highlights that teenagers are "particularly sensitive" to nicotine exposure

Isaac Herzog makes rare statement on often-ignored violence as settlers injure Palestinians and attack soldiers

Detention of Dong on espionage charges has been criticised by human rights and press freedom organisations

Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador in March and April 2025 were subjected to torture, sexual violence, and other mistreatment inside the country's high-security CECOT prison, according to a new report.

Mexico has filed 30 formal complaints with the United Nations alleging human rights violations against Mexican nationals in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said.