Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

Caster Semenya has been awarded €80,000 (£69,000) after human rights judges ruled that she had been denied a fair hearing in ...

LGBTQ rights endure when they are written into or otherwise grounded in national constitutions; culturally normalized across ...

Stacey-Leigh Manuel Published on Listen to Article United Nations member States are formulating their positions on a ...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

Gender-based violence against women and girls violates CEDAW. As the CEDAW Committee wrote in 1992: “Gender-based violence is ...

Over the past six months, the headlines have been dominated by stories of fear, division and hatred. However, activists around the world are working away ...

Caster Semenya sits in the European court of human rights before its decision over sex eligibility rules in ...

US drones operated from Germany fly attacks in Yemen. Three Yemenis claim their rights under German law were violated, but ...

President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown.

Peru's Congress has passed a controversial amnesty law for military and civilians involved in human rights abuses during the ...

The ruling has been hailed by UN human rights experts as a transformative step in advancing climate justice and environmental protection through the lens of international human rights law.