Human Rights

Two Bahraini Shi’a men have been executed in Saudi Arabia following what Amnesty International described as a “grossly unfair trial” on terrorism-related charges. Jaafar Sultan and Sadeq Thamer were arrested in May 2015 and…

Lawmakers in South Korea have introduced legislation that would extend the right to marry to same-sex couples. This important legislation would finally enshrine the rights of same-sex couples in the…

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has faced plenty of backlash in recent weeks over his controversial blockade of military promotions over the U.S. Department of Defense’s abortion policy. His…

Pride Month is about to get started and you know what that means: the shops are full of rainbow flags and what the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) has called…

A Chinese human rights defender who went missing from Vietnam has been imprisoned in China’s Henan province for over seven months, according to his family. Dong Guangping, 64, is being held incommunicado in Zhengzhou No 3…

‘I’m down for it’: Why Italian right-to-die activists are embracing civil disobedience Over the last couple of months, several right-to-die activists have self-reported to Italian authorities for having helped people…

The arrest and ongoing detention of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a prominent civil society activist in Azerbaijan, provides yet another illustration of the government’s intolerance towards independent civic activism in the country.…

Judy Heumann, a renowned advocate for the rights of disabled people, has died at the age of 75. Heumann was an internationally recognised leader of the disability rights movement whose…

EMMETT, Idaho (AP) — A far-right activist best known for his showdowns with federal and state law enforcement officials in Oregon and Nevada is waging a one-sided standoff of a…

The Palestine Action solidarity group is in the middle of a week-long demonstration and sit-in campaign in front of a subsidiary of the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, UAV tactical…