The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Clinical psychologist warns Daniel Duggan’s detention conditions ‘extreme and ‘inhumane’ as wife launches UN complaint

Former US marine’s segregated, maximum security imprisonment is unjustified, wife says

The Guardian - AU · Feb 25, 2023

School pupils ‘flip tables and break fences’ in protest at toilet rule change

Furious children and parents say the decision has “taken away their human rights”

Evening Standard · Feb 24, 2023

Dozens detained by Russian police on Ukraine war anniversary - rights centre

Dozens of people were detained by police in Russia on Friday for actions to commemorate the first anniversary of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, in some cases just for placing flowers, a human rights group said on Friday.

Reuters · Feb 24, 2023

Qld premier unmoved by youth crackdown rights concerns

The Queensland Human Rights Commission says the premier hasn't responded to letters about her controversial bill to crackdown on child offenders.

AAP · Feb 24, 2023

Shamima Begum has shown up courts’ deference to this government. It’s a worrying new era

Issues related to national security have always been hard to crack, but judges are unwilling to consider human rights, says barrister Conor Gearty

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023

New independent regulator won’t intervene on issue of state ownership

State ownership was described as a ‘matter for the foreign office’ despite a warning from human rights groups that it leaves English football ‘open to the worst type of manipulation’

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

Lawyer angry at 'appalling' Shamima Begum decision after ex-ISIS member refused passport

Human rights lawyer Shoaib M Khan said the ruling was "disappointing" as Shamima Begum is still stuck in a camp in northern Syria, following the news that she would not be able to get British citizenship back

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023

Nicholas Goldberg: He's in hospice care now. But Jimmy Carter is still changing the world

I badly wanted to cast my first presidential ballot for Jimmy Carter in 1976, but I wasn't old enough to vote.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 23, 2023

Malaysia pressed to probe deaths of 150 foreigners in detention last year

Human rights groups have urged Malaysia to investigate conditions at migrant detention centres after the government said 150 foreigners, including seven children, died at the facilities last year.

Reuters · Feb 23, 2023

‘Life and death situation’: Queensland police minister’s claims on youth justice rebuked by experts

Mark Ryan criticised for saying government’s move to override Human Rights Act is for ‘the greater good’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 23, 2023