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The new code sets out how biometric data can be acquired, retained, used and destroyed for criminal justice and policing purposes.

PM’s talks with Chinese president postponed after missile strike near Poland’s border with Ukraine

In tonight's edition: As jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah breaks his seven-month-long hunger strike, Egypt's human rights record comes into the spotlight as the COP27 climate summit continues. Also, Senegal recently imposed a price cap on various items from food to rent, as inflation continues to bite, but not…

A key challenge facing human rights globally today is the advent of emerging technologies that mutate rapidly and potentially beyond human control. The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has thus singled out for special study during the next couple of years four areas of concern: autonomous weaponry, neurotechnology, cyberbullying,…

Queiroz returned for his second spell as head coach of Iran in September, amid mounting pressure on FIFA to expel the country from the World Cup due to its human rights abuses

Mexico's government still owes an explanation to the families of 43 student teachers who disappeared eight years ago, and must clear up what role the armed forces played in the crime, a top international human rights body said on Tuesday.

The United States will not hesitate to use sanctions to ensure the Ethiopian ceasefire agreement is respected and abided by and to hold to account those responsible for human rights violations, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.

State media in Iran said on Sunday that Iran's Revolutionary Court has now sentenced one protester to death and handed down jail terms to five others

In today’s Fiver: Gianni Infantino, the Human Rights World Cup and a rebrand

Australia 'regrets' the suspension of a 12-day tour of detention facilities by a delegation of prison inspectors, it tells the UN.

Ali bin Samikh al-Marri says Qatar accepts constructive criticism but he decries use of stats ‘[that] lack accuracy’.