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

EMERGENCY guidelines on the rights of police suspects to have a solicitor present during an initial interview have been updated to stop them conflicting with the Scottish soli

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

EU Commissioner Viviane Reding, responsible for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, yesterday (25 August) criticised the French authorities for seeking solutions to immigration problems and tackling the Roma issue outside of an EU context. She also indirectly condemned Italy for its "discriminatory" and "inflammatory" rhetoric.

European Council and Commission representatives yesterday (24 August) confirmed reports that the United Nations is to grant the EU the right to speak in the body's General Assembly ahead of its 64th session, which starts on 15 September in New York.

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.