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The controversial awarding of France's highest honour to top Saudi prince

Controversy is mounting after the French presidency awarded the Légion d’Honneur, the country’s highest decoration, to Mohammed ben Nayef, Crown

World

Rights and reforms: Iran's post-election challenges

There is as sense of deja vu about our interview here in Geneva, with Dr. Mohammad Javad Larijani, head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and

Honduras

Environmental and indigenous rights leader murdered in Honduras

USA

Apple bites back and asks US court to overturn FBI access ruling

Apple has petitioned a US court to overturn its ruling ordering the company to help the FBI break into the phone of one of the San Bernadino killers saying the decision violates its constitutional rig

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South Korea: Hologram rally

A human rights group used holographic images of protesters in an offbeat rally to demand freedom of assembly. Amnesty International South Korea made

World News

Amnesty International condemns global 'wholesale assault' on human rights

Amnesty International says the United Nations has systematically failed to uphold human rights and international law – and the Syrian conflict is one

World News

UN human rights chief urges Turkey to investigate shooting in Cizre

The United Nations’ top human rights official has called for an inquiry into the alleged shooting of unarmed civilians by the army in the south east

World News

Human Rights: affected by fear?

Terrorist attacks and migrant flows have led to human rights being curtailed

China

Pu Zhiqiang: Chinese human rights lawyer gets suspended jail term

Pu Zhiqiang, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, escaped jail after he was convicted of “inciting racial hatred”. The conviction

Angola

Nicki Minaj urged to cancel Angola Christmas concert

Multiple award-winning rapper Nicki Minaj has been asked by Human Rights Foundation to cancel scheduled Christmas concert in Luanda on Saturday, December 19, organised by telecommunications company ma

Syria

Syria: Human Rights Watch issues report on government held victims

After nine months of research, Human Rights Watch (HWR) has revealed some of the human stories behind tens of thousands of photos of those believed

Europe News

Sakharov Prize an 'historic moment' for jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

Jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi has been officially awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Collecting the European Parliament

Europe News

Wife of jailed Saudi blogger hopes Sakharov Prize will be 'gateway to freedom'

Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi is being officially awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Wednesday. But the human rights activist

World News

Call South Sudan's leaders to account on child soldiers says report

The army base at Pibor in Southern Sudan is new, within a stone’s throw of the school whose classrooms its soldiers occupied for several years until

China

Pu Zhiqiang: the who, what, why, where and when of the high-profile human rights lawyer

Police clash with friends and supporters outside the trial of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer outside in Beijing.

Cuba

UN Human Rights Day sees protests, detentions in Cuba

Police made at least six arrests in Havana and dissidents claimed at least 100 nationwide in Cuba. The capital saw scuffles but little more on the

Switzerland

Should we have better laws to protect migrants?

32nd International Conference Held once every four years 189 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies National governments NGOs A global gathering

USA

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus ride into history

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was arrested for civil disobedience for violating Alabama State segregation laws. 60 years ago today

Ukraine

Ukraine passes law outlawing discrimination against gay workers

After several failed attempts, Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday backed a bill that bans discrimination against gay workers – a pre-condition for the

Europe News

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins EU's Sakharov rights prize

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime, was awarded the