The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Latin Americans besieged by organised crime may be willing to overlook a turn towards authoritarianism, but at what cost, asks Buenos Aires-based journalist Jordana Timerman

A human rights group says that a political prisoner has died in prison in Belarus after authorities failed to provide him with proper medical care

South African justice minister Ronald Lamola led a top legal team to argue the country’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 11 January.

KEIR Starmer flew to Qatar on a private jet to meet the nation’s leaders – despite previously saying he would refuse to visit the country due to…

A leading human rights group says people's rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective outrage about some abuses and silence about others

Human Rights Watch has criticised Australia over its continued failures to ensure the rights of its most vulnerable people.

Human Rights Watch also says Israel’s war has included ‘acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes’.

Assessment comes despite claims by Rishi Sunak that Rwanda is safe when making case for asylum policy

Sara M. Saleh is a writer and human rights lawyer. She has won two of Australia’s most prestigious poetry prizes: Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2020 and Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize in 2021. She has published extensively in literary and poetry journals, and co-edited Arab, Australian,…