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Human rights

April 2024

  • A middle-aged woman holds up a report that says: 'The state of the world's human rights' with the Amnesty candle and barbed-wire logo behind her

    Rights and freedom
    UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally

  • Illustrated portrait of Tommy Nicol.

    The IPP scandal
    Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison on a ‘99-year’ sentence?

  • Migrants are brought into Dover Port by a RNLI lifeboat after being picked up in the English Channel.

    The Guardian view on sending refugees to Rwanda: the UN is right – this law sets a bad example

  • Rishi Sunak addresses a press conference in Warsaw.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Defence spending in UK to be put ‘on war footing’, Rishi Sunak says – as it happened

  • UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals

  • Council of Europe human rights watchdog condemns UK’s Rwanda bill

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rwanda bill clears parliament after peers abandon final battle over safety amendment – as it happened

  • ‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims

  • ‘Birmingham Four’ ask CCRC to investigate convictions for terror plot

  • Today in Focus
    The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate

  • UN watchdog warns Australia after failure to provide timely report on detention conditions

  • US and UK complicit in detentions at Syrian camps where torture rife, says Amnesty

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs vote to give smoking ban bill second reading – as it happened

  • China continues to persecute family of dissidents unlawfully, finds report

  • UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

  • ‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

  • Senior Tories fear Johnson and Truss will sabotage Sunak’s election campaign

  • Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts

  • Keith Carmichael obituary

  • ‘Right to freedom from torture’: UN experts urge the Gambia not to decriminalise FGM

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