human rights

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling gives option to keep blanket ban despite the ECRH declaring it illegal

Lord Chief Justice says whole life tariff does not breach human rights but downgrades three sentences in review.

Two activists dead after their detention in Beijing ahead of 18th Communist Party Congress.

US president says there is 'no excuse' for violence against stateless Rohingya Muslims.

Barack Obama praises reforms in Burma and urges nation to continue process.

Human rights champion and leader of Burma's National league for Democracy has finally spoken out on the dramatic conflict between Buddhist and Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar

Christian demoted from work and forced to take 40 percent salary cut after posting gay marriage was “an equality too far”.

Barber says his religion prohibits him from touching women other than his family members.

Reports of female genital mutilation in western media are "hyperbolic" and "one sided", unfoundedly portraying the practice as "savage and horrifying", a report has said.

Jawad and Jalal Fairooz tell IBTimes UK of their shock at discovering their citizenship had been revoked by Bahrain government.

Savita Halappanavar, who was 17-weeks pregnant, arrived at the University Hospital Galway on 21 October complaining of back pain. She was then found to be miscarrying and died of septicaemia a week later.

Lamaa’s mother is calling for the execution of TV personality Faihan al Gameri for the murder of their daughter.

Greece's infamous neo-Nazi party set up a branch in Italian city of Trieste.

Parliamentary speaker Rebecca Kadaga says bill will become law by end of 2012, but Kikonyogo Kivumbi says it is merely a 'political weapon'.

Ramirez, 21, shot by police during clashes between authorities and students protesting against tax reform.

China has taken the extraordinary step of blocking access to Google.com and numerous other Google services.

Presenter widely condemned for handing list of alleged paedophiles to David Cameron after three minutes of research.

Human rights expert Sarah Cook says the Communist Party's latest clampdown on dissent could have a ripple effect which lasts for years.

China expert Jonathan Fenby takes a look at what's in store for US and China relations as Obama is re-elected as US President.

Britain plans to begin talks with armed Syrian opposition groups in a bid to end the Syrian civil war, but rules out arming the rebels.

Prime Minister criticised by human rights groups for saying Britain would allow Assad to leave Syria in hope of ending civil war.

Big Typhoon deal, which faces competition from France and US, also on agenda.

Every year, thousands of people risk their lives to get to the US from Mexico, facing 70 degree temperatures, rattlesnakes and a five-day trek across the Sonoran Desert.

Nicholas Levene (Beano to his friends, of which I am one) is a crook, a wrong 'en, a "more front then Brighton" conman, who has just been found guilty of £32 million fraud and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

There has been continuous fighting in Syria since Sunday night and at least 50 soldiers have been killed by a suicide car bomb attack.

Human Rights Watch tells IB Times UK that treatment of prisons, rights of prisons and mistreatment of foreign workers all require urgent attention.

Zaheen and husband Mohammed Zafar arrested for murder of 15-year-old Anusha by dousing her with acid in Kashmir.

Row over crackdown on Islamist groups said to be reason for exclusion.

F1 chief not worried about race despite anti-government protests and crackdown on public gatherings.

China plans to develop a new system as taking organs from executed prisoners is neither ethical nor sustainable.