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This research builds upon Amnesty's May 2025 report, “Social Insecurity: The Devastating Human Rights Impact of Social Security System Failures in the … Read more: UK use of AI in digital welfare system sparks human rights concerns – JURIST – NewsContinue Reading

Human Rights (ECHR) Article 3 medical, Discretionary Leave, or where there is an existing published concession. Applications relating to LOTR on … Read more: Leave outside the Rules (LOTR) on compelling compassionate grounds – GOV.UKContinue Reading

… human rights according to both the Spanish Constitution and European human rights law, by failing to manage record levels of pollution from … Read more: Court rules Spain breached residents' human rights in landmark case on livestock megapollutionContinue Reading

… Civil and Political Rights, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. … human rights law,” the Commissioner added. With these proposals, the … Read more: The Commissioner urges the Greek parliament to refrain from suspending the registration of …Continue Reading

A landmark opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on "the climate emergency and human rights" underlines that the investor–state … Read more: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Urges States to Review Investor–State Dispute …Continue Reading

From IRA bombing suspects in the 1970s to alleged al-Qaeda terrorists at the turn of the millennium, veteran human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce has … Read more: The human rights lawyer battling Palestine Action's legal ban – The TelegraphContinue Reading

That, however, wasn't the case with the Brookings Human Rights Commission at Tuesday night's City Council meeting. The BHRC currently has the … Read more: Brookings Human Rights Commission seeks new directionContinue Reading

Careers at IHREC. IHREC staff are Civil Servants of the State and are recruited via recruitment campaigns run by publicjobs and our recruitment … Read more: Work with and for us | IHREC – English – Irish Human Rights and Equality CommissionContinue Reading

US decision to sanction Addameer, Palestinian human rights organisation, has grave implications for Rights Work in Israel/Palestine & beyond. Read more: US: Lift sanctions on leading Palestinian human rights organisationContinue Reading

The South African runner Caster Semenya has called for athletes' rights to be better protected after Europe's top human rights court ruled that she … Read more: Caster Semenya calls for athletes' rights to be put first as court rules in her favourContinue Reading

Human rights defenders in exile face growing acts of transnational repression (TNR) on a global scale. ISHR interviewed Basma Mostafa, … Read more: UN, governments must tackle Egypt's transnational repression of journalist and activist …Continue Reading

On July 9, 2025, in the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held Russia … Read more: European Court: Russia Accountable For Widespread Abuses Of Human Rights In UkraineContinue Reading

However, the European human rights court refused to rule on several other aspects of Semenya's case. This included questions over whether she was … Read more: Caster Semenya did not get fair hearing in sex eligibility case, human rights court rulesContinue Reading

Amid record-high detention levels under the Trump administration, RFK Human Rights and the ACLU are sounding the alarm on dangerous, preventable … Read more: Newsweek: More ICE Deaths 'Inevitable' as Detention Numbers SoarContinue Reading