The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

The reasons for Abdelrahman Tarek’s brief detention were unclear, with activists concerned over handling of dissidents.

Independent Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has revealed she will lodging a racism claim with Australian Human Rights Commission against The Greens. The news comes after the Indigenous senator (who quit the Greens earlier this year) alleged she had been bullied by her former colleagues. Lidia told ABC TV’s Insiders program on Sunday…

By Dave Sherwood

The tumultuous end of Indonesian strongman Suharto's 32-year regime in 1998 was punctuated by widespread riots with mobs targeting ethnic Chinese and a deadly crackdown on student protests. Twenty-five years on, the victims and their families are still fighting for justice.

Legislation would put 65 percent tax on foreign government donations to Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups.

Three international civil society organisations on May 26 highlighted an upcoming proposal for Meta to evaluate its human rights situation in India.  

Environmental and human rights groups say Vietnam's crackdown on civil society will undermine an international climate program that's also aimed at boosting the country's economic development.

A report released by human rights organization Walk Free found that the number of people living in modern slavery, including forced marriage and human trafficking, has grown to 50 million since 2018.

Intervention without human rights goes by many names — involuntary institutionalization, compulsory drug treatment, “coerced care,” forced abstinence or a combination of all of those terms.