Palestinians face hours-long waits at Israeli military checkpoints, forcing women to give birth outside hospitals.
Operating quietly, a human rights network is racing to document atrocities in Sudan before the evidence is erased.
Volunteer who distributed food and water to protesters at Jantar Mantar and his friend allege that police seized their phones, blindfolded them and questioned them at an undisclosed location over the ‘source of funds’; law student held without arrest warrant still in Bihar police custody
Pregnant Palestinian woman loses baby after Israeli checkpoint stop
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker said that Lebanon's displaced endure ‘exhaustion and despair’.
Addressing the Delhi Police Commissioner, CJP appealed to issue directions to all police officers, “to cease and desist from unlawfully detaining, intimidating” and to stop obstructing the the supply of food and essential items from reaching Jantar Mantar
Austrian lawyer Volker Turk set to become first UN rights chief to complete two four-year terms since post was created.
“Large-scale detentions, questioning and harassment of youth across Kashmir, with over 2000 young men being picked up on allegations of being over-ground workers or OGWs,” says Mirwaiz
Lack of accountability has undermined public confidence, says South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR)
The Progressive Medicos and Scientific Forum (PMSF) and groups under the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) umbrella have also sought an independent judicial inquiry into the alleged used of such weapons against protesters on July 20 during the march to Parliament
Indian authorities release the two men after years in prison although both remain under tight court-imposed restrictions
Two hours from the tourist beaches of Bali, slavery is alive and well on the Indonesian island of Sumba, where people are still born into bondage. They work from dawn to dusk without pay, are passed on in marriage, and are sometimes beaten and raped by their masters. Yet most are resigned to their fate because their status “cannot be wiped away”, as one young slave – or ata – Kanisius Kanyali Hambarita said. Slavery has been illegal in what is now Indonesia for more than 160 years, but it...
Otero Alcantara is part of the San Isidro Movement, which has long been the target of Cuban repression.
Prominent Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara flew to exile on Saturday in the United States after serving a five-year sentence on the island, as Washington urged Havana to release more than 700 political prisoners. Otero Alcantara, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2022 for insulting national symbols, contempt and disturbing the public order. He landed in Miami, the capital of the Cuban diaspora, after a short...
Petitioner seeks nationwide ban on medically unnecessary genital surgeries on intersex children; calls for provision of identity documents and job reservation
After years of searching and court battles, a judge declares what Junaid Rashid already believed: His father was dead.
Dong Guangping, who has resettled in Canada, recounts his perilous escape from China to South Korea.
Hassan Khalil Almukayed is among at least 15 Palestinian doctors from Gaza currently in Israeli detention.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs is drafting educational material aimed at discouraging what officials call the spread of “LGBT culture”, after a presidential regulation listed the issue among the country’s non-military security threats. Officials said the content, which was still under discussion, could be included in religious education in regular and Islamic schools, as well as Friday prayer sermons, family development programmes and other religious events. The government has said...
A Hong Kong couple have lodged a complaint with the United Nations for alleged breach of human rights after Swedish authorities applied to permanently transfer the legal guardianship of their daughter to a local foster family. Tsang Wai-bong and Kwan Pui-sin said on Tuesday that they had filed their complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee regarding Sweden’s handling of their four-year-old daughter, Lily, who was at the centre of a custody dispute. The unmarried couple alleged that Swedish...
Footage of the punishment quickly went viral: an unmarried couple each receiving 21 lashes of the cane in Indonesia’s Aceh province after being accused of kissing in a car and live-streaming it on TikTok. As each blow landed on their backs, the unnamed man, 22, and woman, 25, visibly grimaced. The woman later burst into tears, wailing in pain as the public punishment continued. The caning was carried out on July 2 in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital. Aceh is the only Indonesian province to...
Representatives of civil rights group have raised questions over the police’s version of events leading to the encounter and sought an investigation by a judge
With Satluj bringing back the spotlight on state violence on youth of Punjab during 1990s, here is why Jaswant Singh Khalra remains a revered figure even today
Before he exposed Israel's deliberate targeting of Gaza children, Srinivasan Muralidhar took on Indian authorities.
Egypt coach condemns silence on killing of Palestinian children
Elyas Abu Safia says his father Hussam can barely breathe or speak after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.
It’s been more than 1,000 days of genocide and 500 days of Abu Safia’s detention. We need urgent action to end both.
The Commission further directed that if the allegations are found to be true, responsibility shall be fixed on the concerned police officials, and an Action Taken Report, along with the findings of the inquiry, shall be submitted at least one week prior to the next date of hearing.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk issued the warning over growing fears of an imminent RSF assault.
A court order requiring Japan’s government to compensate the family of a Peruvian man who sustained a broken arm at an immigration facility has intensified scrutiny of the country’s detention system, with rights experts saying the case shows reforms are urgently needed. On June 25, the Osaka High Court ordered the government to pay 880,000 yen (US$5,400) in damages to the family of Vladimir Burgos Fujii, a Peruvian man of Japanese descent, who was injured while being restrained at the facility...
The deportees were sent to Ghana, then to their home countries, despite earlier rulings by US judges that it was unsafe.
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a collective of sex workers, turns 30; the community talks about their lives, difficult working conditions, their long-sought demand to be recognised as workers in Kolkata