Mauritius Rights Body Calls for Marriage Equality
Click to expand Image Port Louis in Mauritius, November 12, 2024. © 2024 Xinhua/Shutterstock The National Human Rights Commission in Mauritius earlier this year urged the government to legally recognize same-sex marriages, stating that the refusal to recognize such unions is discriminatory and lacks justification under domestic law. The Commission’sContinue Reading
US: Nebraskans Losing Coverage as Medicaid Changes
Click to expand Image Medical professionals and patients gather for a rally outside of the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. on November 3, 2025, demanding an end to health care policies which they say are harming communities and threatening care access for low-income families, people with disabilities and the elderly.Continue Reading
UK Trial Challenges Gold Industry’s ‘Responsible Gold’ Certification
Click to expand Image North Mara Gold Mine in Tarime district, northwest Tanzania. © 2022 Private An unusual trial will begin next week in London’s High Court: the families of two 23-year-old Tanzanian men who were fatally shot in 2019 at a Canadian-owned gold mine in northern Tanzania are bringingContinue Reading
Uzbekistan: Guarantee Karakalpak Lawyer’s Safety
Click to expand Image Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov in the defendants’ cage on the last day of his trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main city in Karakalpakstan, at a court in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on January 31, 2023. © 2023 Eurasianet (Berlin, October 1, 2026) – UzbekContinue Reading
Execution of Christa Pike a ‘gross violation of human rights’ – The Times
Human rights campaigners condemn the capital punishment of a woman whose abuse as a child was ‘as horrific as her crime’ Read MoreContinue Reading
Human Rights and Populist Wrongs by Murray Hunt – Project Syndicate
… right favor withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. But the story of the Hillsborough Law shows how human–rights laws, not least … Read MoreContinue Reading
Top Trump figures push to direct human rights funding to rightwing causes – The Guardian
Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rights. Read MoreContinue Reading
United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child must investigate the imprisonment and …
The court rejected his age and his autism as grounds for leniency, despite the UN Human Rights Office reminding Hong Kong that Article 37 of the … Read MoreContinue Reading
Michael D. Higgins to deliver keynote address at ICEL’s Annual Human Rights Law Conference
Former president Michael D. Higgins will deliver the keynote address at the Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) Annual Human Rights Law … Read MoreContinue Reading
Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups
It’s against human rights – a crime against humanity.” The harsh sentence of lashes imposed on Ahmadi has alarmed the musical community in Iran … Read MoreContinue Reading
Australia investigating reports of human rights activist detained in Vietnam – as it happened
The Reserve Bank has lifted its key interest rate to 4.6%, its highest level since 2011, from 4.35%. · The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said Australians … Read MoreContinue Reading
Majority of Britons say Government only protects speech it agrees with – Liberty
These include protest restrictions, arrests for communications offences online, the proscription of Palestine Action, and the failure of the Labour … Read MoreContinue Reading
Israeli settlers attack West Bank village and block Palestinian family’s return home – BBC
Two homes belonging to the al-Tubasi family were set on fire and Israeli security forces were also targeted by settlers. Read MoreContinue Reading
94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister arrested at Labour conference protest – Facebook
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while … Read MoreContinue Reading
Over a dozen international groups urge Pakistan to release jailed human rights lawyers
This picture taken on December 5, 2025 shows human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari (R) with her husband and fellow lawyer Hadi Ali Chattha (L), … Read MoreContinue Reading