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For 20 years, populists have been blaming the ECHR for endangering Britain by offering basic protections to immigrants, says author Daniel Trilling

By the end of 2024, the number of people worldwide who had been “forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order” and had fled their countries stood at approximately 42.7 million, according to the UN Refugee Agency. Whether they are asylum…

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi has been imprisoned in the UAE for almost a year for criticising Emirati, Egyptian and Saudi governments

A convicted sex offender has been deported from Britain to Ethiopia after being accidentally released from prison. Following a national manhunt, home secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed that Hadush Kebatu – an asylum seeker who came to the UK without authorisation on a small boat – would be returned to his…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean "unacceptable" and called for an investigation on them.

Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States

The advocacy group, Human Rights Watch, had urged Merz to speak out against Turkey's crackdown on the opposition, including the arrest of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.

Thousands of Londoners flock to the Middle East city each year — but behind the façade is a brutally repressive regime where human rights are non-existent

The case worked its way through European legal systems for nearly a decade before the ruling.