human rights

A 46-year-old man who has been paralysed for 8 years on Monday chose deep sedation as a way to end his life. Euthanasia is illegal in Italy but recent court cases have acquitted people involved in assisted suicide, and the...

A surge in violence fuelled by heavily armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, prompted the UN rights chief on Tuesday to express her deep concern over its severe impact on human rights across the Caribbean nation. “Armed violence has reached unimaginable...

“I have never had any greed for power. Like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who fought for guaranteeing equal rights for everyone without any desire for personal gain, I have always believed in humanity and in equal rights, opportunities,...

Russia’s military attack on Ukraine has “opened a new and dangerous chapter in world history,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told an urgent debate on Thursday, leading calls for a ceasefire. Convened at the request of Ukraine, the Human Rights...

Authorities in Bangladesh have yet to conduct an investigation into the murder of prominent journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi 10 years after they were killed, UN human rights experts said on Friday.  “A decade after the killing of the...

Human Rights More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, calling it “shameful” that governments continued to legislate...

At the beginning of the pandemic, some policy analysts assumed that democracies would have performed better than autocracies in coping with the crisis. It has soon become apparent that state capacities and the quality of leadership played a more important...