The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

More than 60 self-exiled Chinese Christians who were arrested in Pattaya for overstaying their visas are now at a police facility in Bangkok awaiting the authorities’ next move.

UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday demanded an urgent repatriation of children from northeast Syria. UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights while countering terrorism, released a joint statement, as the detained children enter…

The United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Turk deplored on Friday how grave human rights violations were "shockingly routine" in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and said the number of civilian casualties was far higher than official figures.

Matiullah Wesa, an advocate for girls’ education, is arrested as the Taliban cracks down on women’s rights activists.

Newcastle United and Manchester United fans have joined forces before the teams meet to call for a ban on the sale of clubs to states who could use their ownership for sportswashing

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) published the results of its monitoring of the activity of Russian forces, with the completion of their 90 months of involvement in the Syrian crisis. The first month of the eighth year of the Russian intervention in Syria witnessed several developments within the…

Attorney general declines to comment on calls for commissioner Lorraine Finlay to consider her future in the role

Yemeni deputy minister for human rights Majed Fadail revealed that a planned prisoner swap between the legitimate government and Iran-backed terrorist Houthi militias will take place in April. The official, who is also a member of the government negotiations delegation that took part in the talks with the Houthis over…

Activists, lawyers and refugees see the UK repeating the mistakes and abuses of Australia’s draconian asylum seeker law.