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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Council of Europe urges UK to repeal parts of Troubles legacy law

      Legislation could grant immunity to those accused of committing N Ireland atrocities

      Relatives of victims killed during Northern Ireland’s Troubles protesting in Belfast on September 11 2023
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      Trump’s trials will inspire a global epidemic of whataboutism

      The world’s despots will use the prosecutions of the former US president for propaganda purposes

      Illustration of a group of politicians in suits pointing fingers with their hands and, instead of heads, they have a hand with pointing fingers too
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      DR Congo
      UN ‘alarmed’ by deaths during protest against its DRC peacekeeping force

      Human rights groups accuse military of shooting civilians during unrest that left dozens of people dead

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Climate change
      UN warns banks that fund Saudi Aramco about possible human rights breach

      Financiers of world’s biggest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases told they could be violating international law

      Saudi Aramco’s crude oil processing facility, in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Mexico
      Head of Mexico’s agency for finding missing people resigns

      Move comes as government of López Obrador conducts a census of individuals who have disappeared

      Family members of 43 missing student teachers march in Mexico
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Saudi Arabia
      Saudi forces accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants

      Human rights group says border guards at frontier with Yemen opened fire on unarmed civilians

      Ethiopian Tigray migrants stand in lines
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Joy Lo Dico
      When a neighbours’ spat becomes a human rights dispute

      A recent London High Court ruling supports the view that freedom of expression is to be upheld even in the most mundane matters

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      COP28
      UK asked to obtain assurances from UAE over right to protest at COP28

      Human-rights activists have reacted with scepticism to pledge by oil-rich Gulf state it will allow climate demonstrations

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    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      InterviewLeadership
      Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan: ‘I had seen too many of my colleagues turn to alcohol’

      Head of the international charity on the personal toll of investigating the world’s dark corners

      Tirana Hassan, wearing black suit and white blouse, sits on a long red sofa
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Alexei Navalny
      Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for further 19 years

      Moscow court rules he will serve term in one of the country’s toughest penal colonies

      Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny,  second left, in court on August 4 2023
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      UK foreign policy
      UK ordered to apologise to academic over alleged torture in UAE

      Parliamentary ombudsman attacks ‘profound failure’ of embassy staff to spot signs of alleged mistreatment

      Matthew Hedges
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast23 min listen
      Sudan power struggle risks turning into civil war

      Hopes for a democratic transition are fading, putting regional stability in jeopardy

    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      UK employment
      Vulnerable UK migrant workers at risk as audits of farm recruiters stall

      Task force launched by supermarkets to tackle exploitation has yet to complete any assessments

      A farm worker harvests asparagus from a field near Sandwich, Kent
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Susie Alegre
      We don’t need new ‘neurorights’ — we need to know the existing law

      The framework already exists but strong regulators must apply it properly

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    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Romania
      Plight of Romania’s ‘horror’ care homes recalls orphanages scandal

      Story of elderly found abandoned at construction site emerges as raids find overcrowding and maltreatment

      A raid under way at a care home near the Romanian capital Bucharest
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Christopher Sabatini
      The international human rights framework desperately needs an upgrade

      Countries in the global south are making dangerous alliances with illiberal autocracies

      Children of the United Nations International Nursery School in Paris inspect a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      World Health Organization
      WHO urged to pay reparations to DR Congo sexual assault victims

      Judge leading review says health body’s response to scandal ‘was not sufficient’

      Patients wait outside a health centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo in July 2019
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      Artisanal mining: the struggle to clean up a murky industry

      Small-scale miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo are risking their lives to source a metal critical for the energy transition

    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      Tirana Hassan
      The UK’s convenient silence on Rwanda

      Atrocious human rights abuses by the M23 armed group are being downplayed

      Armed M23 rebels wearing army fatigues and welly boots sit on the back of a pickup truck
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Apologising for slavery is a start, but it’s not nearly enough

      Fixing the mistakes of the past requires more than just expressing your regrets

      Ewan White illustration of a magnifying glass enlarging dark shadows on a US flag
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Syria
      ‘The day my breath stopped’: families await UN body to trace Syria’s missing

      Member states prepare to vote on institution to investigate the fate of 100,000 people who have disappeared

      Fadwa Mahmoud holds portraits of her son and husband, who disappeared in 2012, in Berlin, Germany
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      UK politics
      British MPs warn Israel anti-boycott law could also stifle criticism of China

      Opponents fear bill to stop public bodies adopting ‘own foreign policy’ will not apply exclusively to any state

      A demonstrator holds a picture of her Uyghur relatives during a march in London
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast19 min listen
      When should countries intervene to prevent mass murder?

      The Rwandan genocide led to the birth of an idea: the ‘responsibility to protect’

    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes hit by Xinjiang forced labour complaint

      Carmakers are the target of one the first cases brought under Germany’s new supply chain law

      Shanghai Volkswagen, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor
    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      Dominic Grieve
      Lords must hold UK to its international obligations to refugees

      Political posturing has led to ministers’ attempt to extinguish the right to legally seek asylum

      Mural of a  woman with long hair putting her arm around the shoulders of a woman wearing a  headscarf
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