The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

'Always under persecution': Palmer claims court win

Clive Palmer has claimed a court win in a long-running case after a magistrate ruled the billionaire businessman's human rights may have been impeded.

AAP · Sep 12, 2025

Ghana Is Latest African Nation to Agree to Receive Third-Country Deportees From the US

The policy has faced sharp criticism from rights groups and legal experts, who question its legality and warn about potential human rights abuses

Latin Times · Sep 11, 2025

Rick Stein’s restaurant firm among those to miss gender pay reporting deadline

The Equality and Human Rights Commission revealed a list of 10 organisations that missed the deadline to report by several months.

Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2025

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

PHOTO ESSAY: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

China runs the largest digital surveillance apparatus on earth. An Associated Press investigation has found that American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

Netanyahu threatens Gaza residents as UN slams Israel over ‘mass killing’

Gaza City residents told to ‘leave now’, while UN human rights chief condemns Israel for ‘war crime upon war crime’.

Al Jazeera · Sep 8, 2025

Lawyers Caught In Turkey's Crackdown On Opposition

Turkish lawyers defending human rights or representing clients who challenge state policies have found themselves increasingly caught in the crossfire of the crackdown on its main opposition party.

International Business Times · Sep 8, 2025

Police Scotland arrests of two Palestine activists 'not justified', Amnesty warns

POLICE Scotland arrests of two Palestine protesters over the weekend may “not be justified” under human rights laws, Amnesty International has…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 8, 2025