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Letter from 150 organisations adds to MPs’ concern about the bill of rights bypassing pre-legislative process

Refugees and internally displaced persons, who now comprise half the Syrian population, will be unable to safely return to Syria until it achieves a political transition towards democracy, a report by a human rights group has stated. According the Syrian Network for Human Rights, atrocious violations are still ongoing in…

A new policy says only swimmers who transitioned before the age of 12 will be allowed to compete in women’s events.

The European Court of Human Rights effectively grounded a deportation flight to Rwanda last week just minutes before it was due to take off

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has announced the end of the refugee status given to Ivorians who fled political crises in their country to reside in neighboring Liberia. To mark the occasion, the human rights organisation's Chief Filippo Grandi was in the northeastern town of Buuto on World Refugee…

They alleged that the police were threatening to demolish their huts and to torture them to evict them.

For decades, Whitehall has pondered how to make use of the Commonwealth, without tangible results. There was an expectation in some quarters that Brexit would increase its significance to the UK. But it was never clear why this would, in itself, suddenly transform an under-resourced and notoriously unfocused organisation into…

Veteran human rights lawyer Michael Vidler decided it was too dangerous to work in Hong Kong the moment a judge designated to handle national security law cases implied offering legal support to democracy activists could be a crime.

Editorial: The FA and the England team should back proposals to safeguard migrant workers’ rights after the World Cup in November