Click to expand Image Police removing journalists from Toplum TV on March 6, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. © 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images An Azerbaijani court on July 27 sentenced nine journalists, media workers, and civil society activists to between 12 and 15 years in prison. It is the harshest verdictContinue Reading
Advocates have urged the Crisafulli government to reconsider controversial legislation that would send youth offenders to boot camps, warning that … Read MoreContinue Reading
Why did China support the re-election of Volker Turk as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights? Read MoreContinue Reading
… rights, civil and political rights, environmental protection, the rights of vulnerable groups, human rights education and international cooperation. Read MoreContinue Reading
Click to expand Image Makeshift shelters for communities displaced from Nagero County to Bazia, Wau County, South Sudan, November 18, 2025. © 2025 Joe Falzetta South Sudan’s army, opposition forces, and their respective allied militias abused residents and caused much of the population to flee during fighting in 2025 inContinue Reading
Neither government commented on allegations of human rights violations involving British soldiers during previous training exercises. Kenya’s … Read MoreContinue Reading
The surprise move during a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine followed US opposition to giving UN human rights chief Volker Turk another four-year … Read MoreContinue Reading
Sourcing materials responsibly requires both environmental and human rights considerations, including working conditions; energy use; community, water … Read MoreContinue Reading
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the family were travelling in a Samand car on the evening of 26 July when Ministry of … Read MoreContinue Reading
… human rights crisis in the country. At the weekend, Donald Trump … “Death sentences issued by the revolutionary courts are a violation of human rights … Read MoreContinue Reading
Click to expand Image Can Thi Theu in the dock during her appeal at the Hanoi People’s Court, Vietnam, on November 30, 2016. © 2016 Vietnam News Agency/AFP via Getty Images Can Thi Theu, 64, is serving an eight-year prison sentence at Prison No. 5 in Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa provinceContinue Reading
In its 2025 activity report, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) looks back on a year marked by the intensification of attacks on … Read MoreContinue Reading
Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Räsänen in her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights; the last opportunity to overturn the … Read MoreContinue Reading
The US Civil Rights Commission invited me to testify on this backlash. For my testimony, I documented hundreds of frightening examples (including … Read MoreContinue Reading
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk addressed the media in Beirut following his visit to Lebanon, where he discussed civilian … Read MoreContinue Reading