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Human Rights Watch urges more coordination by governments to tackle China’s treatment of Turkic MuslimsThe Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, where it has escalated its oppression of Turkic Muslims to unprecedented le…
Read MoreAppeal court clears wife to sue company in London over husband’s death while helping to scrap tanker in ChittagongBritish shipping companies that sell old vessels to be scrapped cheaply in dangerous, low-paid conditions in Bangladesh, India or Pakistan…
Read MoreHowever monstrous her actions in joining Isis, her citizenship isn’t conditional because her parents were born abroadShamima Begum has the right to contest the government’s decision to deprive her of British citizenship. But she cannot exercise that ri…
Read MoreVeteran activist Lee Cheuk-yan accuses police and government of depriving Hongkongers of constitutional rightsA veteran champion of democracy in Hong Kong has described its legal system as an instrument of political suppression, after he and eight othe…
Read MoreSupreme court ruling welcomed by rights activists who say it opens the way to broader prison reformsIn a landmark decision, Pakistan’s supreme court ruled this week that prisoners with serious mental health problems cannot be executed for their crimes….
Read MoreFashion brand to investigate the death of 20-year-old Jeyasre Kathiravel, reportedly killed by supervisor at Natchi ApparelsThe family of a young garment worker at an H&M supplier factory in Tamil Nadu who was allegedly murdered by her supervisor s…
Read MoreFamily of women’s rights advocate, found dead in Canadian lake, call for police to reopen investigationIt was the homecoming they never wanted. Five years ago, Karima Baloch fled Pakistan after her work as a prominent human rights activist put her life…
Read MoreBritish barrister was called ‘mercenary’ by UK foreign secretary for taking on case against pro-democracy figuresThe British QC hired to run the prosecution of senior Hong Kong activists, including the media mogul Jimmy Lai, has pulled out of the case …
Read MoreDefeated measure aimed to give high court more power to protect minorities such as China’s UighursThe government has narrowly defeated a move requiring the government to reconsider any trade deal with a country found by the high court to be committing …
Read MoreUK-based security firm faces calls to repay charges made by recruitment agents for jobs in Gulf states and conflict zonesMigrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the United Arab Emirates have collectively been forced to pay milli…
Read MoreUK politicians challenge David Perry’s decision to act against group accused of illegal assemblyA British barrister has agreed to act for the Hong Kong government next month in its efforts to convict Jimmy Lai and eight other pro-democracy activists ac…
Read MoreJudge said the ‘humiliating’ practice was used to cast suspicion on the victim, and deflected focus from the act of sexual violenceA Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented r…
Read MoreExclusive: More than 70 Harvard schools and student organisations sign open letter urging US state department to take stronger action over Ekpar Asat The US government must do more to demand China release a Uighur man who was jailed for 15 years after …
Read MoreStudents among those who could face long sentences under sweeping lese-majesty law Thailand’s authorities must stop targeting pro-democracy protesters with draconian legal action and instead enter into dialogue, according to the UN’s special rapporteur…
Read MoreCountry’s expected ascension to human rights council presidency is being challenged by a China-backed bid by BahrainFor a small country in the South Pacific that joined the UN’s powerful human rights council for the first time in 2019, Fiji has made gi…
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