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Attorney general declines to comment on calls for commissioner Lorraine Finlay to consider her future in the roleFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFederal …
Prosecutors seek compensation for workers kept on cattle ranch owned by German carmaker during dictatorship from 1973 to 1987Brazil is threatening to take the German carmaker Volkswagen to court over allegations that it used slave labour on a vast ranc…
Group of Swiss women and French ex-mayor suing their governments in first such cases heard by rights courtThe governments of Switzerland and France have been accused of breaching the human rights of their citizens by not acting decisively enough on cli…
Council of Europe’s experts say bill is ‘step backwards’ in fight against modern slaveryEurope’s human rights watchdog has warned the UK government that its plans to curb the rights of trafficking victims in its illegal migration bill is a “significant…
Council of Europe commissioner raises concerns that legislation may not meet human rights standardsPolitics live – latest updatesA European human rights commissioner has warned UK parliamentarians, before a debate on the government’s controversial ille…
Human rights commissioner says given role in ‘brutal colonisation’, it is ‘fundamentally important’ police participate in inquiryFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news…
New Human Rights Watch head Tirana Hassan says UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers is ‘cheap politics’The UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda would “completely erode” Britain’s standing on the world stage, the new head of Human Rights Watch (HR…
Human rights watchdog say people angry at Macron’s pension law had right to protest peacefully Europe’s leading human rights watchdog has accused the French police of using “excessive force” during protests against a fiercely contested pension law.Dunj…
Apple Daily founder and British national, 75, in jail since 2020 facing charges under national security lawA close confidant of the jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has called on Britain to do more to secure the 75-year-old’s release.Lai, a prom…
Human rights court hears seriously ill woman denied procedure as advocates call for change in region with world’s most restrictive abortion lawsHuman rights activists in Latin America hope that a historic court hearing over the case of a Salvadoran wom…