Browsing: Rights

British consumers trying to avoid animal-derived products are being misled by unclear footwear labelling, a leading animal rights charity has said.Under current legislation in the UK,…

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

Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers have been accused of trying to block stronger rights for millions of workers amid a growing campaign by business leaders to…

The UK government’s ban on Palestine Action limits the rights and freedoms of people in the UK and is at odds with international law, the UN…

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…

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…

Federal court says government not obliged to shield residents of Torres Strait Islands from the effects of climate change.Indigenous Australians living on a string of climate-threatened…

It is a beautiful sunny day on the island of Jeju in South Korea and as the boat cuts through the water all seems calm and…

The South African runner Caster Semenya has called for athletes’ rights to be better protected after Europe’s top human rights court ruled that she had not…

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…