Human Rights

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq

Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq calls campaigner's death a 'tremendous loss' for rights activists

UK Home Office graph reveals shocking scale of Palestine Action arrests

Jailing of Pakistani rights lawyers marks ‘new wave' in dissent crackdown, says former minister

Swiss councillors to vote on Uefa tax exemption over failure to suspend Israel

Israel's genocide in Gaza

UK grants asylum to Palestinian citizen of Israel over fear of persecution

UK court clears British activist Majid Freeman over role in Leicester riots

UK anti-protest laws may be 'in breach' of international human rights obligations

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Palestine Action-linked hunger striker hospitalised for fifth time

Cop27: How the climate crisis and resistance to Sisi's autocracy are linked

Katherine Hearst

Biden administration not taking 'concrete steps' to close Guantanamo, defence lawyers say

UK 'broke own funding rules' by giving Bahrain millions as it executes prisoners

Bahrain: Rights groups urge Pope Francis to raise religious freedom concerns during visit

Israel's ugly obsession with the Palestinian birthrate

Osama Tanous

Amnesty calls for probe into possible war crimes during Gaza offensive in August

Afghan Americans enraged over US marine's 'abduction' of orphan

Sisters of Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah ask UK foreign office to secure his release

Alaa Abdel Fattah’s sisters call on UK foreign office to secure Egyptian icon's release

Qatar World Cup 2022

Qatar World Cup stadium company ‘built Uyghur internment camp’

‘It's my last hope before I kill myself’: Asylum seeker threatens to end his life in Malaysia

People who help refugees are not traffickers or terrorists. Stop targeting them

Mary Lawlor