The political head of the body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights has told the BBC that it is "absolutely ...

The Council of Europe’s secretary general Alain Berset told the BBC he was open to engage on migration issues over the treaty ...

Parliamentarians are making decisions today that will define Australia’s compliance with international law for years to come.

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member ...

The European Convention on Human Rights is exactly 75 years old. When it was agreed in November 1950, it was intended as a ...

Volker Türk has the greatest respect for those able to hold onto hope when all appears to be lost. As United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, he has devoted his life and career to helping ...

As authoritarianism spikes, legal professionals are increasingly in peril because of the clients they are willing to defend, ...

The European Parliament's legal committee adopted a report on Wednesday calling on the European Union to legally require ...

Hungary's ban on school talks about sexuality or transgender issues is "an affront to human rights", Britain's first Special ...

Human Rights Watch research found that Palestinian armed groups involved in the assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, committed numerous violations of international humanitarian law – also known as ...

The UN's human rights chief has condemned US military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and ...