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Human Rights Watch report accuses Hamas-led groups of war crimes in southern Israel attack, including crimes against humanity and sexual violence allegations.

Exclusive: Cache of videos obtained by Guardian Australia and SBS’s The Feed lays bare distressing treatment of teenagers – many of them disabled – in police custody

Human Rights Watch says ill-treatment of some minors arbitrarily held in gang crackdown amounts to torture

Kenyan authorities apprehend suspect in connection with discovery of dismembered bodies of women at quarry in Nairobi. Human rights organizations call for ...

Oleksandra Matviichuk spent years documenting alleged Russian war crimes but the events of 2022 still shocked her.

While most adults have nostalgic memories of being young, and the freedom, exploration and learning that entails, this will be less likely for the current generation of youth. Newly published research into and by young Australians presents disturbing findings that a high proportion of Australians feel as though they are…

IOC signs deal with kingdom to host gaming Olympics over 12-year period amid criticism of Saudi human rights record

Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, the legendary African author and activist, is proof of what words and acts can achieve in the struggle for justice and human rights. Soyinka, aged 90, embodies unrelenting activism and literary excellence.

A Dutch court has rejected a claim from human rights organizations that the Netherlands is dodging a court order to stop sending F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel which could use them in Gaza