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Unknown individuals assassinated the commander of the Baath Brigades, a close figure to the Lebanese Hezbollah party, in the countryside of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday. The official was assassinated in recent Israeli shelling in the Damascus countryside, said the Observatory.

Sixteen rights groups on Monday urged the Iran-backed Houthi militias to end their siege of Yemen’s third-largest city. The groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, said in a joint statement the Houthi blockade of Taiz has severely restricted freedom of movement and impeded the flow of essential goods,…

Senior advocate of Supreme Court of India and former member of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Jyotika Kalra, in an exclusive conversation with Dynamite News, said that social justice cannot be achieved without economic justice. Read exclusive report on Dynamite News:

Move comes 30 years after Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission called for such offences to be scrapped

Communities around Rio Tinto's shuttered copper mine in Bougainville face a serious threat of flooding due to unstable mine instrastructure, an interim report commissioned by the mining company said on Monday.

From labour exploitation to torturous conditions in confinement, the rights of foreign workers facing the death penalty in Bahrain are often neglected.

Belarus is an outlier, as the last European state to maintain the death penalty. And, with a recent amendment, they’re doubling down.

Michael Wood wants to know if more can be done over the rising demand for cobalt. 

Exclusive: Human rights to be kept ‘separate’ from trade talks despite earlier promises

After a series of failed legal challenges and their native title being extinguished, a group of Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners are using a human rights act to occupy land at Bravus's Carmichael Coal mine in central Queensland.

Palestinian families are living in caves after their homes were being demolished by the Israeli army in what human rights groups have called a humanitarian disaster.