The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately tackle global heating. Now, the Strasbourg court will be hearing them on 27 September,…

Human Rights Commission says at least 34 attacks on religious sites of minority Ahmadis have taken place so far in 2023.

Time to ditch the UN convention, said Braverman, we’d all been far too nice to people fleeing persecution

PATNA: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday took suo motu cognizance of a TOI report about a Mahadalit woman being brutally assaulted, stripped and urinated upon for failing to pay interest on a loan at a village in Patna district and issued a notice to the Bihar government.

The UK could be seen to be turning its back those in need in a “direct affront” to human rights, charities said after the Home Secretary…

The esteemed photographer has spent more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book

The law, which is preventing an investigation into the murder of Pte Tony Harrison in 1991, is a breach of the ECHR, his family argue

The Home Secretary was speaking during a trip to Washington DC, as she pointed to the need to reform the United Nations’ Refugee Convention.

The European Court of Human Rights says that the rights of a Turkish teacher convicted of terrorism offences were violated because the case was largely based on his use of a phone app