Browsing: Human

Mary-Ann Stephenson has been confirmed as the new chair of the equalities watchdog, after the government overruled the objections of parliament’s equalities committee over her suitability…

The international human rights system – the rules, principles and practices intended to ensure that states do not abuse people – is under greater threat now…

The boss of Australia’s human rights commission has questioned Labor’s moves to make Asio’s powers for compulsory questioning permanent, warning a planned expansion of the 9/11-era…

Every Monday and Tuesday morning, Bosede Oluwaokere, 48, wakes up at home in Ilorin city in west Nigeria, gets dressed and walks to a nearby stream.…

An attempt by three former MPs to force the UK government to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote and…

First Hormone-Free Male Birth Control Pill Shown Safe in Early Human TrialA hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A…

My son had never been to a professional soccer game.Soccer is, shall we say, not really his thing. It’s also never been particularly important to me…

Russia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European…

A decade on from China’s biggest crackdown on human rights lawyers in modern history, lawyers and activists say that the Chinese Communist party’s control over the…

4,800-Year-Old Teeth Yield First Human Genome from Ancient EgyptForty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence…