The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Guardian programs offer one example of how governments can work with Indigenous peoples

For much of his life, Ai Weiwei has fought the oppression of the Chinese Communist Party. As he signs sheets of A4 in invisible ink at Speakers’ Corner — a reference to the protests currently going on in his home country — Kate Wills heads down to meet him

The UN Economic and Social Council voted Wednesday to immediately oust Iran from the UN’s premiere global body fighting for gender equality because of its systematic violation of the rights of women and girls, a decision the United States hailed as “historic” and Iran claimed was based on “fabricated allegations.”

Ukrainian investigators in an area recaptured from Russian troops have uncovered a cell where children were detained and mistreated, a senior Ukrainian human rights advocate said on Wednesday.

Councillors have called for a clear policy on human rights investments after no agreement was reached earlier this year

Colombia's government on Wednesday called on the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group to suspend a so-called armed strike planned for the northwest of the country, after advocacy group Human Rights Watch warned the ELN may conduct a strike later this week.

We've seen African summits in Paris, Brussels, Beijing and Ankara. For the second time ever, after 2014, Washington is hosting an African leaders' summit. With superpower rivalries heating up, no long lectures are planned on human rights and corruption. Instead, the Biden administration is bowing to the African Union’s own…

A US-drafted resolution to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women passed over objections from Iran.

Survivors of the Colorado Springs massacre urge lawmakers to condemn anti-LGBT+ rhetoric that advocates argue has fuelled the attack and a wave of harassment