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A leading rights group on Monday called for Mexican lawmakers to vote against a proposal to overhaul the electoral system, warning it could seriously undermine electoral authorities' independence, putting free and fair elections at risk.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has welcomed the stiff jail term for a climate protester who blocked a lane on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Human rights groups around the world express outrage over ‘disproportionate’ punishment of Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco

An influential Iraqi cleric who announced his withdrawal from politics four months ago has broken a period of relative silence to launch an anti-LGBTQ campaign

Rights body says government failing to ensure people with psychosocial disabilities aren’t kept in inhumane conditions.

When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New York City’s foster care system. I believed I was helping families. But what I saw there was not a system working for children’s best interests, but one that was quick to separate children from…

A climate activist has been jailed for using a truck to block the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a sentence criticised by human rights observers.

She was sentenced under wild new NSW protest laws.

Detention, rape, beatings and executions. Ordinary Ukrainians endured unimaginable horror in areas captured by Russian troops. Bel Trew in Balakiya, Izium, Pisky-Radkivski speaks to those who survived as they try to pick up their shattered lives

The World Cup is being hosted in Qatar this year and while thousands of revellers, and WAGS, descend on the country the event is mired in controversy as some focus on equality issues

As elections approach and politicians play to fears over the number of refugees in Turkey, a new report by Human Rights Watch accuses Turkish authorities of indiscriminately deporting Afghans regardless of the dangers awaiting them in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.