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Critics say most people in Africa’s third-largest oil-producing nation have not seen benefits from that natural wealth.

An Australian-based Uyghur group is taking Kmart to court, alleging it sourced stock using slave labour while marketing itself as an ethical business.

POLICE Scotland may have breached people’s human rights with arrests at pro-Palestine demonstrations ...

Bangladesh is marking one year of the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Aug. 5 amid hopes and desperation for a better democracy

Israel is carrying out more demolitions this year than in any other year of the occupation, which began in 1967.

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by Human Rights Law Network founder and senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, TNM Kerala bureau chief Haritha John, Sriram Rajagopal, and A Welkin. 

Overcrowding in Northern Territory prisons and watch houses has led to "third world conditions" and a denial of human rights, legal advocates say.

Technology firms have apparently suggested placing tracking devices or a microchip under the skin of convicted criminals to monitor them in prison or when they come out, according to a recent report in the Guardian. Though the idea raises questions about human rights, the technology is certainly developing that could…

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele secured the right to seek indefinite re-election on Thursday after his party-controlled Congress approved a sweeping constitutional reform that also extends presidential terms from five to six years.

Stephenson to take over at equality watchdog even though committees raised concerns about breadth of experience

Indigenous communities in northern Kenya are being pushed off their land to make way for wildlife reserves, human rights groups say. They accuse conservation groups of using tourism and carbon offset schemes to justify evictions and violence.