This week 25 former political prisoners arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania having been released from detention in Belarus.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is repealing limits on climate-warming pollution from ...

Pakistani authorities on September 17, 2026, rearrested human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha soon after the Supreme Court granted them bail.

As grave human rights violations remain pervasive in Afghanistan, amid a context of extreme repression, gender persecution, and a situation the Special Rapporteur has described as “gender apartheid,” ...

Satirist and political commentator Azamat Omarov, who had been in pre-trial detention in Kazakhstan since mid-April on ...

Hungary’s new government has taken an important step toward dismantling a key discriminatory legacy of the Orbán era—the ...

The Turkish government’s major crackdown on groups and activists defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people threatens the rule of law and fundamental rights in ...

On September 11, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General published reports outlining findings ...

Sverige har en lång historia av att värna mänskliga rättigheter. Rättigheterna betraktas i dag som en integrerad del av ...

Chinese lawyer Ruth Wang fled to Taiwan on September 2 after authorities threatened to shut down her law firm. Her offense?

Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...

The Australian government has caused thousands of people seeking asylum to suffer grave abuses under its offshore detention ...