Human rights and victims’ organisations have accused the Government of “colluding” with the “narrow agenda” of the UK by backing a proposal which they say seeks to weaken the protections of the ...

A new report from the American Consumer Institute (ACI) details, for all their touting as “green” sources of energy, wind and solar powered electricity generation is much more environmentally harmful ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council cut off a video statement by Anne Bayefsky in which she criticized U.N. officials, including ...

Because of the duties of his job as a human rights lawyer in China, Teng Biao was forced to endure more than five years of harassment and eventually torture at the hands of his home government. After ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Human rights issues—from equal treatment for ...

FEW ARE HAPPY WITH A U.N. Human Rights Commission that has routinely welcomed into its ranks some of the world’s most monstrous regimes. But Secretary General Kofi Annan’s plan to overhaul the ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and ...

The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...

A new international mining sector standard, compiled by some of the industry’s most powerful players, is the latest example of an industry initiative that fails to hold its members accountable for ...

Trump won’t bother about India’s human rights record. Harris might. That’s a worry for the Modi administration. Which U.S. presidential candidate — Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump — ...

Last Thursday, October 17, the 142nd session of the UN Human Rights Committee was held in Geneva, to review the human rights record of Pakistan. A handful of students at the Geneva Academy, including ...