The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

For years, Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians, now the RSF is doing the same.

Arrests are the first case of the city’s national security law being used to target the relatives of pro-democracy campaigners

Witnesses and aid groups in Gaza have reported a surge in looting in the enclave, while human rights groups warn against the use of starvation as a 'weapon of war'.

Mohsen Mahdawi, student detained by Ice last month, pens blistering attack on Trump’s deportation policies

Opposition leader says Eddie Mutwe’s abduction ‘a reminder to the world’ of breakdown in law and order in Uganda.

A TOP barrister has said he hopes a legal challenge against the Supreme Court’s ruling that a woman is defined by “biological sex” will be…

Humberto Padgett was reporting on the effects of drought in Cuitzeo, a rural area of central Mexico, when his car was intercepted by armed men on September 13 2024. They threatened him and stole the car, his identity papers and work equipment, including two bullet-proof jackets.

"The Venezuelan government has killed, tortured, detained and forcibly disappeared people seeking democratic change," said Juanita Goebertus, Americas director at Human Rights Watch.

When Australia signed the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, it committed to providing protection to people who have fled war, persecution and human rights violations.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling for a permanent monitoring system to track Brazil’s compliance with its recommendations following the devastating floods that struck southern Brazil one year ago

Indigenous lawyer and human rights activist Sandra Domínguez and her husband, Alexander Hernández, have been found dead and buried seven months after their disappearance.