Europe’s top rights court says Norway’s Arctic oil licensing passed legal muster, rejecting youth activists’ claims over ...

Climate change is a human rights crisis, and countries have a legal duty to act, write Jennifer S Martin and colleagues Over ...

Professor Steve Haines, who has died aged 73, was a naval officer who became a powerful advocate of human rights on land and ...

More than 6,400 attacks against human rights defenders were reported between 2015 to 2024, according to a new report from nonprofit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC). “That’s close to ...

Climate activists worldwide are facing increased persecution and criminalization by governments, with some of the most severe ...

Leonardo Barcellos, a 32-year-old disability rights advocate, died of asphyxiation on February 26 after a power outage at his home in Rio de Janeiro prevented the machine he used to breathe, from ...

The former prime minister warned her party against ‘chasing votes from Reform’ at the expense of the wider electorate ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

If Donald Trump’s second term is anything like his first, the incoming US president will not advance the cause of human rights. His foreign policy is more likely to harm democratic values around the ...

North Korean defectors urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major ...

The NGO denounced the "violent and repressive" response to the protests. President Samia Suluhu Hassan blamed foreigners for ...

GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel on Monday for "mass killing" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and "hindering of sufficient lifesaving aid", saying the ...