Human Rights
The government is using a "poorly designed" system which “threatens the rights of people most at risk of poverty", claims Human Rights Watch.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert has reportedly been moved to Qarchak prison in the desert for "punishment"
Most days, I oscillate between a determination to do more and a wrecking guilt at not doing enough. Those of us staying are doing our best to hold onto hope.
Language reform is a huge and necessary step in changing outdated attitudes, Ella Glover writes.
Dominic Raab's announcement was one of the first major international moves by a post-Brexit Britain.
There are fears they were made in China’s far west Xinjiang region, where an estimated one million Uyghur Muslims have been detained.
Revealed: Academy earned more than £6m from foreign troops last year – a decade high – taking total earnings to £40m since 2010.
Campaigners say a “significant number” of fines may have been wrongfully issued, as one man says he won't pay his.
Without a vaccine or effective drugs the UK has warned social distancing measures could last until the end of the year. Despite showing support for anti-lockdown protesters, U.S. President Trump has criticized the governor of Georgia for reopening too soon. The United Nations warned that the coronavirus pandemic risks becoming a human rights crisis because of what U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said was “the rise of hate speech, the targeting of vulnerable groups, and the risks of heavy-handed security responses undermining the health response.” Australia is calling for G20 countries to evaluate the safety of wet markets - calling them a "biosecurity and human health risk." Some reports claim that covid-19 originated in a wet market that sold wild animals in Wuhan, China. And an elderly couple in their 80s who live on either side of the German and Danish border have managed to keep their love alive despite lockdown measures - by, literally, meeting in the middle for tea and Schnapps.
When it comes to our digital rights, as with so many other things we hold dear, we are balancing on the edge of a precipice, human rights researcher Annina Claesson writes.