Tag: Human rights

According to a new Amnesty International (AI) report, 17,723 people have died while in the custody of the Syrian regime ...

A controversial law affecting vegan parents has been proposed by Italian MP Elvira Savino, who is a member of the centre-right ...

Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), the law firm responsible for pursuing millions of pounds worth of claims for abuses by British ...

The Supreme Court in London has overuled the Scottish Named Persons scheme that some Scottish activists have labelled a 'state ...

Newly collected statistics show that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is on an upward trend in the UK. Typically associated with cultural ...

Amnesty International is reporting that it has "gathered credible evidence" that thousands of detainees, accused of being connected to the recent ...

In July 2015, the Turkish government ended promising peace talks with left-wing Kurdish militants shortly after performing badly in national elections. It ...

Continued coalition airstrikes are raising concerns from human rights groups due to the mounting death toll of civilians after airstrikes ...

The government are facing accusations of possible human rights violations as they are grilled by a United Nations committee this ...

The British media has given little attention to the ongoing violence and oppression in Israel and Palestine - a long-standing humanitarian crisis ...

On 7 May, protests erupted on both sides of the fence at detention centres around the UK. 190 prisoners conducted hunger strikes at ...

Actor and human rights campaigner Patrick Stewart is appearing on everybody's social media timeline today, having released a withering, and ...

In a speech earlier today explaining her reasons for supporting the 'Stay' campaign in the EU referendum, Home Secretary Theresa ...

Conservative MP Rehman Chishti is calling for British troops to provide air cover to Saudi ground forces should they enter ...

The Undercover Policing Inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Pitchford, resumed this week with legal arguments being made by the police which, ...

Thousands of civilians fleeing their homes. Murderous militias harassing and killing indigenous people on their ancestral land, allegedly with military ...

David Cameron's renegotiation of the UK's association with Europe is wreaking havoc in the Conservative party. Most notably, the Justice ...