American censored by UN Human Rights Council, accused of using 'disrespectful language'
Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust Director Anne Bayefsky submitted a video statement to the U.N. Human Rights ...
Cyprus failed to effectively probe British teen's rape claims, Europe's top human rights court says
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Cyprus’ law enforcement authorities failed to live up to their obligation ...
Thailand repatriates 40 Uyghurs to China, despite human rights concerns
Human rights groups warned that the Uyghurs, who were held in Bangkok for more than a decade, will face mistreatment from ...
UN rights chief warns of 'mass deaths from famine' in Sudan
The U.N. human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there ...
Global consensus on human rights is crumbling, UN rights chief says
The U.N. human rights chief on Monday warned that a system of global protections built in the decades after World War Two has ...
Cyprus should have investigated UK woman's gang rape claim, European Human Rights Court rules
Cyprus failed in its legal duty to investigate a British woman's allegation in 2019 that she had been gang-raped by Israeli ...
UN chief Guterres says human rights are being suffocated by autocrats and warmongers
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says human rights are being “suffocated” around the world. He lashed out at voices of ...
Israel has shown ‘unprecedented disregard for human rights’ in Gaza: UN human rights chief
GENEVA - The UN Human Rights chief accused Israel on Feb 26 of showing an unprecedented disregard for human rights in its ...
How a British woman accused of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus won a human rights case
The woman was 19 when she reported being raped by 12 men at her hotel in Ayia Napa. But after she retracted her report - ...
UK may have to leave human rights treaty, says Badenoch
The UK must look again at international agreements, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said. In her first major speech on ...
Thailand deports Uyghur detainees to China despite warnings from U.S. and rights groups
Rights advocates had said the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, were “at real risk” of torture, imprisonment or even death if they were returned.
Rights group says Israel has systematically abused Palestinian health workers for their profession
Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to ...