Human Rights

Switzerland rejects extending corporate liability over rights abuses and environmental harm caused abroad.

Guatemala’s Congress annulled a contentious budget this week, but protesters are still calling for president to resign.

Protesters met Cuban deputy minister Saturday after large public protests decrying curbs to civil...

Outgoing Trump administration paves way for additional methods of executing prisoners sentenced to death.

After losing almost everything after Nigeria’s police razed his community, Elijah Atinkpo now wants justice.

As Afghanistan’s neighbours shut their doors, many make the treacherous journey to Europe. But few find a welcome there.

A passage in pontiff’s new book referring to the Uighur suffering has ‘no factual basis’, Chinese foreign ministry says.

A UN panel of human rights experts called Japan’s arrest of former Renault-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn ‘arbitrary’.

The grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi sparked international outrage and tarnished the image of Saudi Arabia’s MBS.

A letter to the UN by four congresswomen renews hope that abuse of detained immigrants will finally be addressed.

At least 110 lives have been lost to Europe’s violent border regime in the Mediterranean Sea last week.

German president urges the world to honour the landmark proceedings that gave birth to international criminal law.

UN urges Baghdad to halt all mass executions, noting that more than 40 prisoners have been executed since October.

Three members of the EIPR were arrested after several ambassadors and diplomats visited its Cairo office on November 3.