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Leading human rights lawyer accuses government of ‘dismissive approach’ based on ‘ludicrous’ reasoning

As Canadian federal election candidates prepared for their final debate in April 2025, youth across the country were preparing for collaborative conversations around timely and potentially divisive issues for the National Ethics Bowl at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg.

A growing group has found community around Cincinnati. Trump’s ICE crackdown threatens to send them back to Mauritania, rife with human rights problems

The Department of Homeland Security has dropped its plan to deport a Chinese national who entered the country illegally after his plight raised public concerns that the man, if deported, would be punished by Beijing for helping expose human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region

Long sentences in case of Afro-Ecuadorian ‘Guayaquil Four’ focuses attention on president’s crackdown on crime

Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrants

Mary-Ann Stephenson also says it would be a ‘mistake’ to leave European Convention on Human Rights

Human rights groups and governments around the world have condemned the conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, who was found guilty on all three charges in his national security trial this week. RFI spoke to his son Sebastien Lai, who called on France and other democracies to…

The conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is another hostile act. How can Britain ignore Beijing’s provocations and human rights abuses, asks Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Evidence gathered by human rights NGO Amnesty International shows Tanzania’s post-election protests were met with overwhelming force, with the United Nations estimating at least 700 people were killed in the unrest – raising questions about the future of civic freedoms in the country.

The U.N. Human Rights Office says in a new report that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces on Sudan's largest displacement camp