The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Colombia’s human rights ombudswoman says six children have been killed in a controversial airstrike against a rebel camp in the south of the country

Around 200 Korean engineers detained in ICE's largest ever single-site raid at Hyundai-LG's Georgia battery plant are suing, alleging human rights abuses, visa violations, and racial discrimination. The raid sparked a diplomatic crisis and delayed the plant's launch by months.

Juan Ponce Enrile, the Philippine defense chief during a martial-law era notorious for human rights atrocities, democratic setbacks and plunder who later broke off from dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a schism that eventually led to the latter’s overthrow in a 1986 “people power” uprising, has died

Human rights lawyer who helped to expand Britain’s Race Relations Act and investigated apartheid in South Africa

Shawan Jabarin says US colleagues and funders have distanced themselves from West Bank-based Al-Haq over the sanctions

New analysis published in the BMJ highlights that teenagers are "particularly sensitive" to nicotine exposure

Isaac Herzog makes rare statement on often-ignored violence as settlers injure Palestinians and attack soldiers

Detention of Dong on espionage charges has been criticised by human rights and press freedom organisations

Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador in March and April 2025 were subjected to torture, sexual violence, and other mistreatment inside the country's high-security CECOT prison, according to a new report.