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Claimants to argue lack of adequate action is breach of human rights, in largest climate legal action to date

Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan of Odhikar group documented extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

The daughters of a prominent human rights activist jailed in Bahrain say he has resumed a hunger strike after being denied medical care

US Senator Chris Murphy calls for additional $235m to be withheld over Egypt’s ‘egregious human rights record’.

Israel's Supreme Court has opened the first case examining the legality of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial overhaul, lurching towards a showdown with the nation’s far-right government. The latter has split Israel in two ever since it announced plans to reform the country’s judicial system, which would see the…

Stating that police disclosures should not result in “media trial”, the Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a three-month deadline to the union home ministry to prepare guidelines on media briefings by police personnel. The top court directed the director generals of police of all states to submit suggestions for the…

The new law grants immunity to fighters involved in the 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

Shops that serve unveiled women could be shut under draft law UN human rights body says suppresses women into ‘total submission’

Lawyers for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich are asking a United Nations body to urgently issue an opinion that he has been arbitrarily detained by Russia on espionage charges which are “patently false.”

The U.S. House has overwhelmingly approved several measures targeting Iran for its human rights record and placing restrictions on the country’s ability to import or export its expanding arsenal of weapons

Suspension of the strike comes before the crown prince’s visit to the US, and as Bahrain vows to improve conditions.