The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

As the blocks in the culvert at Stadium Junction in the city were painstakingly removed over the last week, activists see a clear violation of human rights in using manual labour for the activity.

The UN's top expert on human rights in Afghanistan has urged countries to consider making "gender apartheid" an international crime, in a bid to hold the Taliban accountable for grave and systematic abuses against Afghan women.

Multiple ceasefires and international mediation efforts have failed to stop the conflict from escalating.

Jagtar Singh Johal's family say he has been tortured, including through electric shocks, and faces the death penalty over his activism and campaigning for Sikh human rights.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving in the United States for his first official state visit this week. While some Indian Americans will be cheering Modi on, others will be protesting the far-right leader’s appearance, hoping to draw attention to India’s dismal human rights track…

After an uproar over slapping noted Human Rights activist, Prof. Haragopal and others with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Telangana Government is said to have decided not to pursue the case and drop it.

An exhibition by a provocative Chinese artist that criticizes the country's human rights record is opening at a Polish state-run contemporary art museum despite pressure from the Chinese embassy to cancel it

Talking Europe interviews the head of the Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog. A former Croatian minister of foreign and European affairs, Marija Pejcinovic Buric was elected to lead the Council of Europe in 2019. The organisation started out with just 10 nations in 1949, and now numbers…

Hospitals are trapping patients in medical debt and cycles of abusive billing and debt collection practices