The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

The Maduro regime is taking advantage of escalating tensions with the United States to further crack down on dissent, according to a new report.

Tens of thousands of South Korean children have been adopted overseas

A growing group has found community around Cincinnati. Trump’s ICE crackdown threatens to send them back to Mauritania, rife with human rights problems

The Department of Homeland Security has dropped its plan to deport a Chinese national who entered the country illegally after his plight raised public concerns that the man, if deported, would be punished by Beijing for helping expose human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region

Long sentences in case of Afro-Ecuadorian ‘Guayaquil Four’ focuses attention on president’s crackdown on crime

Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrants

Mary-Ann Stephenson also says it would be a ‘mistake’ to leave European Convention on Human Rights

Human rights groups and governments around the world have condemned the conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, who was found guilty on all three charges in his national security trial this week. RFI spoke to his son Sebastien Lai, who called on France and other democracies to…

The conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is another hostile act. How can Britain ignore Beijing’s provocations and human rights abuses, asks Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall