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UK parliament passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, facing opposition and concerns over human rights violations.

Venezuelan President Maduro's willingness to engage with a UN human rights envoy signals a potential shift in addressing human rights concerns in the country.

Exclusive: Human rights commission calls for immediate intervention in the division and says sexism and bullying are rife

Government has already chartered planes for deportations to start as early as July, but legal headaches far from over.

For the first time, the United States is expected to impose sanctions on an Israeli military unit. The Netzah Yehuda Battalion, initially set up to accommodate Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews but which quickly expanded to become a popular unit for radical right-wing settlers, has over the years been accused of a…

The ethnic conflict between the Kuki and Meitei communities in Manipur have resulted in “significant human rights abuses”, said a recent report by the US State Department on human rights in India, citing media that “at least 175 persons were killed and more than 60,000 displaced between May 3 and…

Britain's parliament on Monday passed a bill under which asylum seekers would be deported to Rwanda to await a decision on their applications, in a bid by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to stop people making the dangerous sea crossing to the UK across the Channel.

Tlaleng Mofokeng, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, accused Israel of treating human rights as an "a la carte menu".

Commissioner expresses grave concern after Rishi Sunak’s asylum policy passes parliamentary stages