Around the world, there are many areas where attention must be paid to basic human rights. From the right to…
Anders Behring Breivik has won part of a human rights case against the Norwegian state. The court upheld the mass…
Anders Behring Breivik has given a Nazi salute upon his return to court to accuse the government of violating his…
According to an Amnesty International reports, the torture of suspects in police detention is widespread in China with implements like…
The UN has called for the Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its…
The North Korean mission at the UN held a rare briefing to discuss its recent report on its own human…
According to the UN's human rights chief, Navi Pillay, the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine may be…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Poland broke the European human rights convention in helping the…
Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot have signed an open letter insisting Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova not be billed…
Malala Yousafzai has received the EU's Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony in Strasbourg. In a speech, the Pakistani…
Li Wangyang, a leading Chinese dissident imprisoned after the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, has been found dead under strange circumstances,…