Cambodian civil society groups and trade unions have called on France, Canada and other Francophonie member states to press ...

There is a systematic effort to silence critics and human rights activists through cross-border repression and gaps in ...

The European Union (EU) has raised concerns over growing reports of election-related violence, hate speech and political ...

Selahattin Demirtaş lit up the Turkish left in 2014, but was imprisoned for ‘terrorist propaganda’. His freedom would mark a new political era, says Kaya Genç, a novelist and essayist from Istanbul ...

The Chairman of the 2026 Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL) Annual Conference Planning Committee, Sir Ejike Ezenwa, SAN, has called on lawyers to take ...

Bribery prevalence among prosecutors in Nigeria has risen to 67 per cent and 52 per cent among judges, with both figures more ...

By enabling free association and assembly, robust civic and political spaces prevent authorities from backsliding or from ...

Harsh sentences meted out last week to democracy activist Joshua Wong in Hong Kong and to former lawmaker Au Kam San in Macau mark an escalation in the use of ...

Millions worldwide enthusiastically ‘elected’ Einstein as the man of the millennium. In doing so, they naturally associated ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has raised the alarm over growing harassment, arbitrary arrests, political intimidation and impunity for electoral ...

The UK has said that prosecutions for taking part in the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong will not be a barrier for ...

Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá told the Berlin Freedom Conference on Tuesday that Cuba's government is "a ...