A former Nepali miliary colonel has been arrested in the UK on allegations of torture, in a welcome example of universal jurisication being used to further accountability.

Russian parliamentarians must reject a bill that will have a chilling effect on human rights defenders and civil society when it goes through  its third reading in the Russian Parliament's Lower Chamber.

The law would make the promotion of homosexuality among minors an administrative offence, with fines of up to US$16,200.

Some 300 Roma people mark the anniversary of their forced eviction from a Romanian town to live in horrendous conditions on the edge of a landfill.

Today’s ruling on the CIA’s detention and rendition of German national Khaled El-Masri is a milestone in the fight against impunity for US-led secret detention programmes.

A Turkish court has acquitted four men on trial for their participation in a protest in support of a conscientious objector.

The French authorities must immediately stop forced evictions affecting several thousand migrant Roma each year across the country.

A leading Belarusian human rights NGO had its office confiscated in the capital Minsk on Monday.

The Kazakhstani authorities must not use “extremism” as a pretext to muzzle freedom of the press.