Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, also presented her latest report, which calls for “defossilization” of economies. Phasing out fossil fuels, she said, is ...

I am gravely alarmed by the steps taken or being considered by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine to withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, ...

The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas was tasked to follow up on a request made by the 27 leaders at their Council summit ...

Meg De Ronde was appointed chief executive of Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission earlier this year.LAWRENCE SMITH / Stuff Meg De Ronde was just 4 years old when she went on her first ...

New Zealand’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner has called out a “Genocide Hotline” advertised by activist John Minto, saying it is “potentially harmful” and “must end”. The ...

Trans people right now, they need our support and love more than ever’, says musician and actor Olly Alexander ...

Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion ...

Kenya's deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside pending the outcome of investigations into the death in detention of blogger Albert Ojwang. Mr Lagat had been under pressure to resign from ...

Human rights laws are allowing offenders who have 'fecklessly' fathered children in Britain to avoid deportation, a top police chief said yesterday. Stephen Watson's comments come as both Labour ...

With less than nine weeks left until Samoa's early election, several senior public servants are throwing their hats in the ...

The United Nations' human rights chief has sounded the alarm over a "fundamental shift in direction" by the United States under President Donald Trump. Australian star Guy Pearce has claimed he was ...