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There’s a lot at stake over the next fortnight as nations gather at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. But the stakes are perhaps highest for the Pacific islands and their people.

For the first time since 1995, when the U.N. started holding its annual climate summits, the United States brought something big to the talks that began Sunday: a series of new laws that could take a big whack at its greenhouse gas emissions. But even that — and the steps…

A high-level UN panel on Oct 26 slammed Beijing's ongoing and egregious human rights abuses in the western Xinjiang regions of the People's Republic. China's human rights violations have been committed through the use of "severe and undue restrictions" that are "characterised by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts…

The outlawing of Palestinian rights groups and killing of Al Jazeera journalist will be in focus during the hearings.

The country has been accused of 'sportswashing' by the first openly-gay Qatari man

BrewDog was publicly accused of fostering a “culture of fear” last year.

Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Türkiye of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast. Syria has recorded 81 deaths and more than 24,000 suspected cases of the extremely virulent disease since September, according to the World Health…

Detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s decision to escalate a hunger strike in prison to a refusal to drink water has raised the stakes and shone a spotlight on human rights violations as Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit. For his mother, the time has come for the world to…

The latest U.N. climate talks convened in Egypt as the nations of the world continue to fall short of their greenhouse gas reduction goals.

Channel crossings are wrongfully being ‘misrepresented as illegitimate’, a human rights advocate says

The move will raise awareness and cash for charities involved in fighting human rights in Qatar.