The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

In recent years, western nations have been sending asylum seekers who arrive at their borders to other countries. This is a practice known as offshoring. The UK has become the recent poster country of this practice.

Morocco's release of imprisoned journalists signals progress for press freedom and human rights.

Fundamental rights body warns of flawed approach to credible accounts of ill-treatment and loss of life

LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner ‘delighted and honoured’ to have painting by Sarah Jane Moon on display

Human Rights Watch accuses Sudan's paramilitary group of sexual violence against women, urging UN intervention in the conflict.

Human rights organisation accuses paramilitary group of perpetrating sexual violence against women and girls in war-torn country

UN member states meet Monday seeking to finalize an international treaty on the fight against cybercrime, a text strongly opposed by an unlikely alliance of human rights groups and big technology companies.

The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) has decided to conduct a special review of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). A coalition of civil society organizations, including the Black Class Action Secretariat, Canadian Association of Public Employees, and others, requested the review.

A United Nations expert called this week for an international investigation into a range of "atrocity crimes" committed in Iran in connection with a purge of dissidents in the 1980s. Most of the victims were part of a group now based in France and Albania, in a sometimes uneasy relationship…

González answered a series of questions from the Latin Times ahead of the country's consequential elections

Britain needs to rethink financial support, a leading US congressman has told The Independent