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On International Human Rights Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasised the need to "reclaim" these fundamental values, which he says have been undermined in Europe.

The new chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has urged ministers to “ensure rights are protected across the nation”

European ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, are due to meet in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday to discuss reforming the treaty.

PM says issue must be tackled to prevent voters turning to ‘the forces that seek to divide us’

Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

A human rights group says dozens of people in Haiti’s capital have been killed in a clash between a powerful gang coalition and armed men who apparently broke away from it

An inquiry has heard that greater federal oversight is necessary to stop child predators from exploiting gaps in Australia's childcare sector.

Public figures sign letter saying plan to reinterpret ECHR for asylum seekers is ‘affront to us all’ and a threat to security

Detainees describe guards routinely beating and pressuring immigrants to hop border fences

Exclusive: Ministers face pushback over potential changes to asylum seekers’ rights before Council of Europe meeting

Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024, one of Syria's priorities was to establish transitional justice to prevent the country from being engulfed in revenge. However, a year on, the country's new authorities have been slow to implement this, and new crimes are being added to the…