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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called for a "serious investigation" into the disastrous 2020 Beirut port explosion in a call that was echoed by dozens of other countries on Tuesday. Families of victims, rights groups, and even some political parties in Lebanon have lambasted political stonewalling of…

Volker Türk’s first speech falls short of activists’ hopes for a tougher stand after UN report on abuses in Xinjiang.

House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders have triggered a sanctions review of a Chinese surveillance equipment maker.

A proposed EU law to prevent environmental and human rights abuses by multinationals has been cautiously welcomed by global Indigenous leaders seeking to highlight the damage done by extractive industries. However they say the text needs to go further if it is to protect Indigenous populations from mining companies.

Norway apologizes for its human rights violations, but intends to keep project operational

UNHCR says bill extinguishes the right to seek refugee protection in the UK for those who arrive irregularly

A former prisoner says it felt like she was being "pack raped" when officers removed her from her cell before a strip search that she says breached her human rights.

A proposal for Australia's federal human rights act would see religious freedom, expression, privacy and environment among 28 protections.

New report says a Human Rights Act could have prevented ‘abandonment’ of Australians overseas in Covid pandemic