The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

‘Human rights are a foundational element of Biden administration’s foreign policy, and one can certainly expect that the President will, as he always does with friends and partners like PM Modi in India, to raise concerns about that,’ he said.

India’s prime minister will attend a state dinner at the White House this week as the two countries seek greater ties.

The letter’s signatories asked Mr. Biden to “discuss the full range of issues important to a successful, strong, and long-term relationship between our two great countries” saying they want the U.S.-India relationship to not only be build on shared interests but also on shared values.

The Bill is set to reach the report stage at the House of Lords on Wednesday.

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday ordered issue of notice to the State government on a PIL petition, which has complained that the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) has become non-functional in the past three months due to failure of the government to fill up the body’s three posts…

At the time of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s inspections, the longest continuous detention in a hotel was 634 days

A court in Belarus has convicted a prominent human rights activist of “inciting social hatred” for her work documenting alleged police abuses against political opposition groups

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has called for a report from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over a complaint by Minister V. Senthilbalaji’s wife S. Megala, alleging violation of human rights by the agency’s officials

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will this week receive Washington’s top honors for a foreign dignitary: a state dinner at the White House and an address — his second — to a joint meeting of Congress.

World leaders should hold each other to account rather than ‘sweep human rights issues in their respective nations under the rug’

The European Commission calls for ‘thorough and transparent investigation’ into the deadly sinking of a boat off Greece.