The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Brazil's leftist government on Monday abolished a human rights medal that former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro had named after the daughter of the country's last monarch, replacing it with a prize named after a Black writer and abolitionist.

It is now official: the Asean Community's Post 2025 vision will be extended by another ten years from 2035 to 2045. Asean Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn revealed the 20-year vision in Bangkok last week, much to the surprise of diplomats and the local audience. The decision was taken at the…

A former human rights lawyer tells a court her husband, a prominent Perth doctor, pushed her to the ground and left her screaming in pain during an argument over another woman.

In a January 2023 Federal Court decision, the government of Canada was ordered to request repatriation of four suspected ISIS members currently being held in Syria.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Forgive me, golf gods, for I have sinned.

In a week where the Premier League refused to say if Newcastle's owners are being investigated, there were more warnings against Manchester United's potential takeover from a Qatari group

Activist Vahid Beheshti is entering his 40th day of a hunger strike with a simple message: designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – the military arm of Iran's government — as a terrorist organisation.

More than 60 self-exiled Chinese Christians who were arrested in Pattaya for overstaying their visas are now at a police facility in Bangkok awaiting the authorities’ next move.

UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday demanded an urgent repatriation of children from northeast Syria. UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights while countering terrorism, released a joint statement, as the detained children enter…