The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

RISHI Sunak and senior Labour figures have been accused of “failing” to hold Israel to account for “clear” breaches of international law…

Kerala State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) has written to the High Court & Home Dept. to address the falling rate of conviction in child abuse cases. KSHRC's report, submitted by the ADGP, lists factors such as altered statements, settlements, delays, evidence lapses, etc. as reasons. Recommendations include recording statements under…

In the wake of the same-sex marriage verdict, The Hindu decodes what the top court has previously said about the fundamental right to marry and whether international human rights covenants recognise such a right.

As the world looks towards Israel’s war on Gaza, occupied West Bank settlers attack Palestinians, take their homes.

The US response to 9/11 was dogged by a threat posed by an ill-defined enemy, which led to human rights abuses associated with Guantánamo

TDP MP writes to NHRC seeking an inquiry into human rights violations in Andhra Pradesh. The violations are sponsored, aided and abetted by the State government and fundamental rights are being curtailed and voices of dissent suppressed, alleges Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar in his letter to NHRC Chairman Justice Arun Mishra.

The Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody became a symbol for the women’s rights movement in Iran.

The European Court of Human Rights has found Italy violated the human rights of residents living in and around Naples by failing to manage a 15-year garbage and pollution crisis

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize