Human rights
March 2026
‘Severe disinformation campaign’ fuelling trans hate speech, Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner says
‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief
US-based dissident artist put on trial in China over satirical Mao sculptures, says rights group
Human rights groups cheer ‘watershed’ verdict in social media addiction trial
‘They can reach me wherever’: China using financial tactics to coerce people who flee, says report
Israel’s death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners moves to final vote
‘The whole country is doing it’: how illegal kidney traders target Pakistan’s desperate brick kiln workers
Leo Varadkar: LGBTQ+ rights in Europe face ‘chill wind’ from east and west
Iranian women’s footballers shouldn’t have to choose between their sport and their safety
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Dellaram VreelandThe rural networkAs an Iranian Australian I feel helpless watching the war unfold and pray for peace – but prayer must be coupled with actionTrump’s ‘racist hate speech’ and migration crackdowns violate human rights, UN panel says
Judge halts removal of Eritrean asylum seeker from UK to France under ‘one in, one out’
Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this
Gordon Brown- The age of extinction‘The last frontier’: how red globules of nickel ore are suffocating an island’s precious wilderness
As a refugee, I have lived in limbo for 13 years. Why are only some Iranian women worthy of Australia’s protection?
Fatemeh LahmidiEl Salvador’s mass arrest policy may have led to crimes against humanity, study shows
Iran’s female footballers faced an impossible choice, but we must not romanticise what they are going through
Shiva Mokri and Moones Mansoubi- Rights and freedomMinab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible?
‘They are safe here’: five Iranian women footballers granted humanitarian visas in Australia
- The Guardian picture essayLife on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish