The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Letter: The government’s bill of rights proposal will weaken the public’s right to challenge abuse, says Geoffrey Bindman

Fawzia Amini advocates for rights of Afghan women and girls from London hotel room she’s been stuck in for nine months

Documents detailing shoot-to-kill policy for people who try to escape published as UN human rights chief visits region

A LEAKED cache of police files reveals “shocking” details about China’s brutal persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Beijing must not attempt to cover-up its actions against minorities in Xinjiang.

In its list of 100 most influential people, US-based magazine calls Parvez ‘modern-day David’ who ‘had to be silenced’.

China's Foreign Minister tells the UN's top human rights officialhe hopes her visit will "clarify misinformation" on China's human rights record.

A new patrol by Russian military police and Turkish military forces toured Ain al-Arab, of the Kobani countryside in northern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the joint patrol of eight Russian and Turkish military vehicles had set off from Ashma, west of Kobani. It patrolled…

A plan to mimic unprecedented powers granted to police during the pandemic to give officers more authority to search arrivals in an effort to foil drug importations sparks human rights and privacy concerns.

China says its foreign minister met with the U.N.’s top human rights official on her visit to the country and shared with her that China opposes “politicizing” human rights and imposing double standards

Human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has demanded ‘unfettered’ access for years, but experts doubt she will get it.