Tag: Human Rights

More than half of U.K. MPs engaged online with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, according to a new report from the ...

France has decided to halt the ratification of an extradition agreement with Hong Kong amid increased tensions between European countries and China. The decision comes after Hong Kong’s leader Carrie ...

When John Lewis is mourned, revered and celebrated at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday, he returns to a sacred place imbued with civil rights history. The arc of ...

LONDON — The U.K. has “poisoned the atmosphere” of its relations with China and is putting the post-Brexit vision of “Global Britain” at risk by “decoupling” from Beijing, the Chinese ...

A Holocaust survivor who successfully campaigned for the Dutch railway to pay compensation for transporting people to the Nazi concentration camps has tabled a legal claim against the German state ...

In a new report based on dozens of interviews in northern Iraq, the rights group found that 1,992 children who faced torture, forced conscription, rape and other abuses at the ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for an independent international investigation following the deaths of two prominent journalists from Egypt and Saudi Arabia shortly after their sudden release from prison. ...

Turkey’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law handing the state sweeping powers to control content on social media, a move that rights groups warn will threaten free speech online. The ...

The body of a Dalit (formerly referred to as “untouchables”) woman was taken off a funeral pyre in India by a group of men belonging to more privileged castes who ...

At least 212 people were killed last year while defending their land from being taken over by industry, Global Witness said on Wednesday, the deadliest year since the advocacy group ...