The coalition accused government officials of using state security agencies to suppress critical voices in the media. The League of Civil Society Organizations in Kano State has strongly condemned ...

A Petri dish in a lab. A genome spliced. A pathogen engineered. The spark of the next pandemic may not lie in nature – but in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Amnesty International voiced its support on Friday for a report issued by the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action ...

Giorgia Meloni’s government has shown "heavy intolerance to media criticism," the report finds, calling out "unprecedented ...

A public-interest law firm has filed federal civil-rights complaints against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors who say they’re losing millions thanks to those states’ race and ...

Last week, a cross-regional group of countries – led by Iceland, with support from Chile and South Africa – called on the ...

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...

The undersigned Tunisian and international civil society organizations condemn the Tunisian government’s decision to withdraw ...

Although the concept of human rights is abstract, how it is applied has a direct and enormous impact on daily life worldwide. Millions have suffered crimes against humanity. Millions more toil in ...

HUMAN rights can never be selective. Just as worms decompose a corpse to nourish the soil, or humans consume animals for sustenance, our survival depends on a sacred balance. To weaponise human ...