The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Gary Neville will work for Qatari state broadcaster beIN Sports during the upcoming World Cup, with the Middle Eastern country facing huge criticism for its human rights record

Australia's youth justice system is in "a state of crisis" with more children being locked up in watch houses and detention centres, the National Children's Commissioner warns.

Detained students could face death penalty, human rights groups report, with at least 277 people killed as protests enter eighth week

The death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police in September for not wearing the hijab properly was a fracturing point, prompting Iranian women to come on to the streets en masse to protest the regime’s violence and injustice.

The U.N. human rights chief on Friday called on Afghanistan's Taliban government to release five people the U.N. says were detained during a news conference organised by a women's civil society organisation.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has sent a letter urging countries to avoid protesting against Qatar's dreadful human rights record at the upcoming World Cup, a move that Amnesty International has criticised

LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Fifa has called on teams at the World Cup in Qatar to "focus on football" and stop "handing out moral lessons" in a message that received a sharp rebuke from Amnesty International.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement has committed war crimes since the expiry of a peace agreement last month, the United Nations' human rights chief said on Friday, citing incidents of sniper attacks and shelling.

Jair Bolsonaro has been defeated in the Brazilian election against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) to the rejoicing of scientists, environmentalists, and human rights activists in Brazil and beyond. What happens in South America’s largest country is globally significant since, among other reasons, the country contains most of the…