Former EHRC staffer claims the equalities watchdog is ‘colluding’ with the Tories over race and gender
A former senior staff member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) accused the organisation of suppressing discussion on ...
Tag: Human rights
Campaign group Liberty is dragging Suella Braverman to court over anti-protest laws
The High Court has announced that human rights group Liberty can take home secretary Suella Braverman to court over anti-protest ...
The Labour Party conference is already shaming itself – and it hasn’t even started yet
The Labour Party conference is happening in Liverpool from 8 to 11 October. You'd be forgiven for thinking that after ...
Tory Illegal Migration Act will ramp up asylum hellscape in the UK, according to new research
Braverman’s recent rhetoric around the Refugee Convention has been abhorrent - and the Conservative policies it underpins are about to ...
Brazil’s senate approves a controversial bill in a major setback for Indigenous land rights
Less than a week after celebrations of a key victory in Brazil's supreme court, the country experienced a major setback ...
‘Voice to Parliament’ bringing out the racist underbelly of Australian society shows why it’s vitally needed
The abhorrent racism on display in the lead-up to a historic vote on Indigenous constitutional recognition in Australia has underscored ...
TotalEnergies gears up for greenwashing at its investor day
French fossil fuel major TotalEnergies will host its next 'Investor Day' on Wednesday 27 September. As it says on the ...
The corporations making up the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure hold a prolific record of ecological and human rights violations
Corporations wrecking the planet and harming frontline communities have added a new chapter to their greenwashing playbook. On 18 September, ...
Downing guns shows armed police want ‘impunity’ to kill, critics claim
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charged an unnamed police officer on 20 September with the murder of Chris Kaba. However, ...
Families seeking asylum in UK face ‘inhumane’ conditions, says Human Rights Watch
On 14 September, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on the living conditions of asylum-seeking families in ...
The Tories have invited countries they admit are abusing human rights to a global arms fair
The Tory-led UK government has revealed that it invited eight countries it considers to be human rights abusers to the ...
Major insurance companies shun new oil and gas in the biodiverse Congo Basin – it could be a death knell for big oil in the DRC
New research has thrown cold water over a French fossil fuel corporation's plan to expand its destructive oil and gas ...
Climate activists call on insurers to ditch climate-wrecking EACOP project
On 30 August, climate activists staged a protest against multiple insurance companies. The coalition of campaigners from Money Rebellion, Coal ...
EU imports of Russian liquified natural gas soar 40% since invasion of Ukraine
This article was updated at 11am on Thursday 28 September to reflect a correction. The headline previously read "EU imports ...
UN calls out fossil fuel major Saudi Aramco’s climate crisis-related human rights violations
The world's most prolific fossil fuel major is guilty of human rights violations along with its crimes against the climate. ...
Youth climate activists inspire UN committee to declare child climate rights
Young people have been leading the way in the fight against climate breakdown - and now, a United Nations committee ...
People ask #WheresTom after a Tory minister no-shows a UN meeting on disabled people’s rights
The Tory government failed to attend a meeting of the United Nations (UN) regarding its treatment of chronically ill, deaf, ...
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