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Azerbaijan's human rights violations and crackdown on dissenting voices raise concerns at COP29.

Human rights activists wrote to the King during King Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain’s visit

The president-elect could spark tension between the culturally open cities staging events and a national government promoting insularity

The ‘theme’ chosen for Cop29 must be some kind of dark joke. This summit, like those before it, is a mere act of greenwashing, says climate crisis campaigner Greta Thunberg

Governments are gathering in Azerbaijan on Monday for talks on the climate that will test wealthy nations' commitment to funding poorer ones bearing the brunt of global warming. But concerns over Baku's human rights record and deep ties to fossil fuels have cast a heavy shadow over the UN’s crucial…

Former Labor senator Chris Evans has been appointed as the inaugural anti-slavery commissioner but civil groups want him properly funded and given real power.

As the bill reaches its second reading in the House of Lords, the Fair Game organisation has argued for significant amendments

A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots to kill her and Donald Trump that were disclosed by the U.S. Justice Department

Critics warn that this shift could undermine human rights and economic stability, with some experts suggesting that it could lead to a constitutional crisis