The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

With virtually all the Kremlin's opponents already jailed or in exile, and liberal press outlets and human rights groups forced to shut down, it might have appeared that years of repression in Russia had achieved their objective.

Move would defy advice from UN, human rights, children’s advocates and Indigenous organisations who say age should be raised to 14

A new bipartisan caucus in Congress is condemning the Iranian government over the recent poisoning of school girls in the country, amplifying the growing criticism in Washington against the Islamic Republic and its disregard for human rights

France's pioneering 2017 law that made French-based multinational companies responsible for human rights and environmental violations wherever they do business. Also, a Franco-Vietnamese theatre director brings Vietnamese history to life on stage. And the first same-sex marriage remembered 10 years after it became legal.

The UK has a duty to lead a campaign of international pressure, says Sudan human rights researcher Mohamed Osman

Leader of the Rapid Support Forces has used global public relations firms to convince observers he is a force for good.

Pair’s lawyer says supreme court’s decision highlights ‘need for much stronger protections of civil and human rights’

The Adelaide event begins on Friday, and is set to feature some of the world's top players, but human rights advocates have described the LIV Golf tour as a "blatant example of sportswashing".

Human rights experts fear perpetrators will not face justice for the hundreds of civilians murdered in the last fighting of the two-year war in Ethiopia