European Committee of Social Rights suggests UK to ban children paper rounds. It says newspaper delivery rounds and holiday jobs are in breach of children's rights.
The Scottland police department dropped the case of Kids Company for lack of evidence and insufficient angles. The company is accused of abusing and harassing kids.
European Court of Human Rights ruled in a Hungary case that mass surveillance law infringes the right to privacy in the European Convention of Human Rights. The ruling may kill off the UK mass surveillance bill.
British appeal court rules that the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 contradicts European human rights legislation that protects freedom of expression. The ruling came in the case of David Miranda, who was detained for carying a journalist's document.
Anglican leaders temporarily restricted the role of the U.S. Episcopal Church in their global fellowship as a sanction over the American church's acceptance of gay marriage. The decision was made by senior Anglican clergy at what was described as a "really tough" meeting.
China has formally arrested the most prominent rights lawyer, Wang Yu, and five other human rights lawyers, on state subversion charge, after six months of secret detention. The serious charge could attract a life sentence.
While the election of Maithripala Sirisena brings hope for a more humane Sri Lanka, the fact that the country's police and security forces still makes use of inhumane methods towards their prisoners paints a bleak picture for human rights advocates.
The New York Police Department will tighten safeguards against illegal surveillance of Muslims in secret investigations of terror threats. The city paid damages of about $1.6 million for the plaintiff's legal fees.
UK’s Immigration Bill will likely make it harder for undocumented migrants. Trafficking victimes might not want to voice out their concerns with harsher punishments waiting.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts.
The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers, on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, lasted just three hours on Monday, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court.
An extradition treaty signed by Russia and North Korea could be used to send back defectors from the North and put them at risk of serious harm in their home country, including torture, the U.N. human rights investigator on North Korea said on Thursday.
China needs to deepen its fight against separatists, intensify "de-radicalization" efforts, and increase global cooperation to defend against terrorism, the country's domestic security chief wrote on Tuesday.
The U.S. government is stepping up pressure on India to end a controversial policy of placing restrictions on passports of Indian nationals rescued from forced labour or human trafficking in the United States, a U.S. State Department official said.
The U.S. State Department said on Monday it was reviewing an incident during a meeting of Secretary of State John Kerry with Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov in Samarkand in which an American reporter was escorted out after shouting a question.
China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday, a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy.
Human rights protesters vied with China supporters and tourists to see President Xi Jinping ride in a carriage to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, the first day of a state visit Britain hopes will cement financial ties.
South Africa plans to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), a deputy minister said on Sunday, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan's president earlier this year.
Human rights activists have called on India to reform or repeal laws that threaten free expression in the world's largest democracy and muzzle charities such as environmental group Greenpeace.
Vietnam's Communist Party chief will visit the United States this year, Washington's ambassador said on Friday, in a landmark trip underlining a rapid strengthening of ties between former foes still at odds over human rights.
