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TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: ‘China Feels Emboldened to Globalise Its Political Red Lines’

CIVICUS discusses the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 with Barbora Bukovská, Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, a human rights organisation that works on freedom of e...

Int'l group urges Japan to respect human rights under anti-espionage law

The international group Human Rights Watch has urged Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government to ensure its envisioned laws for counterespionage and foreign agents' regi...

The Twice-Coerced Zambia and the Synergy Between Human Rights Violations and Prohibited Intervention

Last week, like many other scholars and activists, I was due to participate in RightsCon, the leading conference on human rights in the digital age. This year it was supposed to ta...

Rights groups condemn conviction of two UK Palestine solidarity activists

Rights organizations released a joint statement Wednesday condemning the UK’s conviction of pro-Palestine organizers Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham. Organizations spoke about “grave c...

Immigration NZ could 'demand identification papers from everyone' says civil liberties group

Campaigners and lawyers say an immigration bill extending search powers and curtailing appeal rights should not proceed in its current form.

European Union: Surveillance Technology Sold to Rights Violators

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EDITORIAL: Human rights compliance

PSNI may have breached lawyer/client privilege norms - UN

PSNI requests to access solicitors' phone data in respect of a murder appeal may have breached international norms on lawyer/client privilege, the UN has said.

Europese landen ruziën over de vraag of er mag worden gemorreld aan de mensenrechten

European Union: Surveillance Technology Sold to Rights Violators

(Brussels, May 12, 2026) - The European Union has failed to prevent member states from exporting surveillance technology to governments with well-documented histories of using tech...

Rights group concerned over Zambia decision to postpone RightsCon 2026

Human Rights Watch on Friday questioned the Zambian government’s latest decision to postpone RightsCon 2026, a global summit intended to foster collaboration between civil society...

Ook van mensen zonder religie staan wereldwijd de rechten onder druk

UN rights experts concerned over increasing use of intrusive surveillance technologies

Several UN rights experts raised serious concerns on Monday in a joint statement over the increasing use of intrusive surveillance technologies globally and their normalization in...

勤務時間外に「つながらない権利」とは　導入20カ国、日本でも議論

‘When did human rights become a dirty word?’: Readers discuss the state of the world

Readers discuss the US and Iran, bombing for freedom and justice

Do constitutional freedoms make people uncomfortable? A civic defence of ‘The Change’

The gathering of 35,000 Christians in Madrid last weekend can and should be debated, just like an...

Why Canadians Need the Luxembourg Convention on Protection of the Legal Profession

Several Canadian governments have been using politicized rhetoric against “self-interested” lawyers and biased courts to garner popular support for increased control of the legal s...

Government minister commits to human rights treaty at Oxford University event

Lord Hermer spoke at an Oxford University event, where he pledged the government would retain the European Convention on Human Rights.

Rights not a cultural commodity

Rights group condemns Kazakhstan conviction of human rights protestors

Amnesty International called the conviction and sentencing of 19 activists participating in a peaceful protest a “travesty of justice,” in a press release on Tuesday. The protest w...

Digital Rights Activists Criticise Zambia Over RightsCon Cancellation

Three African digital rights organisations have condemned the cancellation of the 2026 edition of RightsCon in Zambia, accusing authorities of yielding to foreign pressure and unde...

Academic Freedom over Human Rights? (5/11)

In 2024, universities worldwide witnessed an escalation of pro-Palestinian protests. Against the background of established human rights violations by the Israeli government in Gaza...

International Scientific Committees: Academic freedom and institutional responsibility in the case of the University of...

In this article, we examine a tension within university committees tasked with evaluating international scientific collaborations. On the one hand, universities have a mission to s...

Amnesty International’s annual report warns global human rights under severe attack

Amnesty International warned in its annual report Monday that human rights around the world are under severe attack, creating “a global environment where primitive ferocity could f...