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Human rights

September 2026

  • An Israeli flag waving with the illegal settlement of Maale Adumim on a hill in the background.

    UN adds 61 firms to settlements blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Palestinians

  • A pregnant woman with orange string sewn onto the photo

    Shackling prisoners giving birth should be a last resort – but it’s happening around Australia anyway

  • Montage of images including of Donald Trump, people being escorted to a plane and US government documents

    What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and whom does it target?

  • Miha Mazzini

    double quotation markThe spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror

    Miha Mazzini

  • No hope, no vote … how most of Delhi’s sex workers are being struck off electoral rolls

  • Rights and freedom
    Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists

  • New special envoy for Britons detained overseas warns of limits of role

  • OpenAI urges UK lawmakers to rein in technology amid growing safety fears

  • Crossbench MPs launch push to stop Australian military exports being used in human rights breaches

  • Hundreds of asylum seekers removed from UK to France have disappeared, say NGOs

  • Curse of the Nile’s gold: how Sudan is losing its fertile fields and ability to produce food

  • Malta warned of corruption crisis after ‘utter disbelief’ over Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict

  • Spyware can easily fall into the wrong hands – investors should take note

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan

  • British family of man abducted by Saudi Arabia speak out over nine-year ordeal

  • Broken feet, ripped-out hair and now a death sentence: the fate of twin sisters jailed over Iran protests

  • The Guardian view on press freedom: to defend democracy, stand up for journalists

  • Care workers and others fleeing UK modern slavery win visa reprieve

  • Don’t dismiss ‘Woke 1.0’ – young people’s activism should be encouraged

August 2026

  • Queensland Premier David Crisafulli

    Queensland concedes law imposing mandatory jail on some offenders as young as 10 breaches human rights

    State government says ‘breach bail, go to jail’ laws raise risk of overcrowding in jails, while one expert warns they may lead to ‘cruel outcomes’
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