The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Despite a large number of custodial deaths being recorded in India, the National Human Rights Commission has not recommended prosecution in even one such case between 2016-17 and 2021-22 (up to Feb. 28)

An investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights has found that prosecutors are often reluctant to use bodycam video from officers in the Minneapolis Police Department in court because the officers' language is so offensive. "When MPD officers scream obscenities at community members, it makes it challenging for prosecutors…

Following Alito's reasoning on Roe, public schools aren't in the Constitution — and Republicans are now salivating

Tehran is accused of detaining the scientist to influence the trial of an Iranian in Stockholm

NZ has made a concerted effort to support the Ukrainian people. But why Ukraine, and not other situations where the application of the rule of law is equally urgent?

Home Minister says India has always worked for protection of human rights in region

Newly reported data shows that torture continues in federal prison segregation units. It’s an ongoing feature of Ontario provincial jails too.

Killings of human rights defenders in Colombia fell to 139 last year, compared with 199 in 2020, local advocacy group Somos Defensores said on Thursday, though it found that overall acts of intimidation and violence rose slightly.

Calls for buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland have intensified in recent weeks