'Mosquito' devices which emit high-pitched whine to help disperse teenagers from street corners could be banned by the European Union on the grounds that they infringe children's human rights.

Alex Salmond has warned BBC chiefs they are breaching the human rights of the Scottish people by denying him a place in a televised general election debate.

Tomorrow, Amnesty International holds a panel discussion on the impact of religious fundamentalism on gay and women’s rights. The speakers are playwrights Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and Jo Clifford, and artist Sarah Maple. I spoke briefly to Jo and Sarah about their experiences: Keen churchgoer Jo Clifford knows exactly what it is to attract the ire of

Please stay in Unison and help us fight for our rightsI understand how angry some - many - members will be in the branches which have been taken over by Regional officials.I share the anger at the way in which the democratic rights of trade unionists have been denied on utterly spurious grounds, I was a member of the Greenwich branch and know from personal experience that it is one of the better r...

In the latest manifestation of the Religion of Peace, 500 Nigerian men women and children were murdered in the city of Jos by Muslim mobs: Survivors and human rights organizations said that more than 500 people — many of them young children from an ancient ethnic Christian group known as the Berom — were hacked to death with machetes, axes and daggers in the villages of Dogo Nahawa, Ra...

By Darinka Aleksic, from Labour List In 2008, the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill through Parliament saw the most serious attempt to restrict abortion rights in Britain in the last two decades. Since then, apart from occasional shrieking headlines about levels of repeat abortions among teenage girls, abortion has generally fallen off the

Catalan, Basque, Galician, Welsh and Scots Gaelic should be made official languages of the European Union, MEPs said last week, accusing Brussels of failing to protect "the rights of millions of speakers of non-official EU languages" and calling on the EU institutions to do "much more" to promote multilingualism.  

Whatever your views on Jon Venables release and subsequent return to prison there surely can be no disagreement on our right to know what he did to warrant this. The Injustice Secretary, or whatever Jack Straw is officially called these days, says we don't have a right to know and other Labour politicians have expressed the opinion that the law decides this and that it isn't in the publi...

It was in a dingy socialist meeting hall a century ago in Copenhagen that women from 17 countries gathered and launched the idea of a day which would champion the rights of women. All over the world this weekend women are marching, celebrating and protesting, not least in London where last night thousands of people thronged Trafalgar Square to mark the 100th International Women's Day.

A new book reveals how celebrities’ and human rights activists’ simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur made the conflict even worse.