We must harness Britain's generosity and compassion to help the rest of the world, says William Hague.

Finance Minister Sammy Wilson questions the need for the Human Rights Commission in Northern Ireland and says a number of quangos must be cut.

The press notice from the Electoral Reform Society says: Katie Ghose has served for 5 years as Director of the British Institute of Human Rights, a national charity with a mission to bring rights to life for everyone in the UK. A public affairs specialist and barrister with a background in human rights law and

I did a double take when I read about this, but I shouldn't have been surprised. Here's a bit from the Obama State Department's first report to the UN Human Rights Council, sent for the approval of beacons of human rights like Libya, Saudi Arabia,and Pakistan: In its first-ever report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on conditions in the United States, the State Department said Mond...

The head of Northern Ireland's Human Rights Commission is to step down a year early, the BBC has learned.

Whitehall cost-cutting must not be allowed to damage the status of the government's annual human rights report, Sir Menzies Campbell warned yesterday.

ESSAY: Western leaders and human rights groups are now slating Paul Kagame’s authoritarianism. Yet they nurtured and facilitated it for years.

The Foreign Office has rejected concerns that its annual human rights report could be downgraded as part of cost-cutting measures.

Obituary: Paddy Rice – Human rights defender By Joe HigginsPatrick Rice died suddenly on July 7th at the age of 64. Many people in Ireland may not know who he was since, although born in Fermoy, Co Cork, he spent the greatest part of his life in Latin America. However, his was a life less ordinary – a great understatement – and his story should be widely told. Paddy Rice was...

A coalition of human rights groups has called on Wikileaks to remove details of civilian Afghans who were named when the website released more than 77,000 classified US Army documents on the war in Afghanistan.