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Human rights

18 December 2025

  • A man's arms are folded across his torso and linked with other men's arms on each side

    Rights and freedom
    Morocco accused of ‘horrific’ abuse of detained gen Z protesters

    As country prepares to host Africa Cup of Nations, families and rights groups tell of police brutality, with hundreds still held

17 December 2025

  • Eric Reinhart

    A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity

    Eric Reinhart
    The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academia

16 December 2025

  • A Home Office Immigration enforcement van in London

    What the media get wrong on the ECHR and ‘the right to family life’

    Letter: Retired immigration judge Jane Coker points out that it’s the right to respect for family life that the European convention on human rights protects
  • Mersedeh Shahinkar

    Victims of Iran’s 2022 crackdown file criminal complaint against 40 officials

    Claim filed in Argentina alleges crimes against humanity were carried out on Women, Life, Freedom protesters
  • Industrial chimneys billowing smoke.

    Green groups decry EU ‘betrayal’ after vote to reduce oversight of firms

    Social and environmental reporting to be required of fewer companies after EPP aligns with far right to achieve goals

15 December 2025

  • Jimmy Lai

    Governments and rights groups condemn conviction of Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai

    UK, EU and Australia say guilty verdict against 78-year-old is further blow to democracy and press freedom in territory
  • Inside view of detention centre with tables and chairs surrounded by secure doors

    Home Office fails to protect vulnerable migrants, high court judge rules

    Judgement finds systems designed to protect against inhuman and degrading treatment ‘unlawfully’ failing for years
  • An altar bearing an ornate, gold-framed image of Josemaría Escrivá

    Women who say they were tricked into servitude for Opus Dei to meet in Argentina

    Pope urged organisers to hold conference after 43 women alleged they were exploited as minors by Catholic group

13 December 2025

  • Crowds of people at night with central poster of Robert Fico looking horrified with six sticks of chalk pointed at him

    ‘Chalk Revolution’ strikes nerve as Slovakia fears return to authoritarian past

  • Migrants from Syria and Bangladesh wearing orange life vests in a small boat in the Mediterranean.

    ‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts

12 December 2025

  • Mette Frederiksen and Keir Starmer, the prime ministers of Denmark and the UK, at a European Political Community summit in Copenhagen on 2 October.

    Sickened by Keir Starmer’s call to curb human rights

  • Mohammadi portrait

    Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi arrested in Iran

11 December 2025

  • An artist's impression of a child bride standing with a row of red nooses.

    Women in prison
    Child bride spared execution in Iran after blood money is paid

    Guardian story helped to draw attention to planned hanging of Goli Kouhkan over death of abusive husband

10 December 2025

  • A group of people wearing life vests and holding hands, one carrying a child, walk into the sea to board a dinghy

    Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights

  • David Lammy

    Will Labour’s move to limit ECHR deter the far right or alienate progressive voters?

  • Migrants in Gravelines, northern France, waiting on a beach to board an inflatable dinghy boat to cross the English Channel in July this year.

    The Guardian view on ECHR reform: times change, but universal values need defending

  • Keir Starmer has called on European leaders to urgently change human rights laws so that member states can take tougher action to protect their borders and see off the rise of the populist right across the continent.Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s political editor and host of Politics Weekly UK, Pippa Crerar

    Today in Focus: The Latest
    Why does Starmer want to weaken human rights? | The Latest

    Video11:40

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10 publishes list of 34 new political peerages including 25 Labour, five Liberal Democrats and three Conservatives – as it happened

  • Brief letters
    A backdoor way to report on Brighton FC

  • What does UK want to change about human rights law – and will it happen?

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