Human rights
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Letters: It is shameful that such a valiant defender of human rights has been detained since she appears to have been arrested for exercising democratic rights
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Asylum seekers among the group of 44 who arrived in Aceh by boat were tortured in Sri Lanka and face persecution if returned, a compatriot says
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Conditions on Manus Island have become more militarised and difficult in the two months since the supreme court ruled the detention centre illegal. I now ask the Australian people to say no to cruelty – to choose love over inhumanity
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Disability rights We need to stop treating people with disabilities as less than human
Shantha Rau BarrigaIt’s 10 years since the UN established a convention on rights for people with disabilities, but we are still far away from achieving equality
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Motor racing chief Bernie Ecclestone shrugs off criticism over staging prestige event under a repressive regime
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Canadian author says she is humbled to accept reward and is praised by judges for championing environmental and human rights causes
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Obstetrician David MacFarlane says court ruling in the case of a 12-year-old girl sets a damaging precedent that makes law reform even more urgent
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New base in Gulf funded by kingdom recently condemned for arresting activists and shutting down opposition party
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Human rights defender – who says he has endured repeated abduction, torture and life under virtual house arrest – releases damning memoir penned in secret
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The new bottom line Despite the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, there's a lot you don't know about that T-shirt
Marc GuntherAn ambitious effort by a global apparel industry group to measure the social and environmental impact of making clothes and shoes has yet to deliver on its promise -
Magazine editor, aged 81, could face death penalty if charged with sedition
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Support for human rights in South America and Caribbean under threat, which could reduce scrutiny of press freedom, political violence and indigenous rights
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Brother and sister of Pte Benton, found with five bullet wounds in 1995, have been given permission to apply to high court
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Raid on home of Nabeel Rajab coincides with UN meeting in Geneva that other activists were barred from attending
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Velauthapillai Renukaruban travelled to Jaffna to get married and was beaten and imprisoned on false charges, his family say
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Many leave dire situations to work in oil palm plantations hoping for a better future, but they are vulnerable to deception and poor working conditions
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The EU’s charter of fundamental rights sets out a range of civil, political and social rights for all its citizens
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The decision not to charge an MI6 officer over the rendition and torture of two Libyan dissidents is disappointing. The UK should be setting an example
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Chinese security forces have launched an unprecedented crackdown on the country’s human rights movement. More than 300 people have been interrogated or detained. Today, almost a year since that crackdown began, more than 20 lawyers and activists remain in custody facing political subversion charges. Click on the photographs below to read profiles of 16 who remain in some form of detention.
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Li Heping’s six-year-old daughter Li Jiamei dresses as a superhero, hoping to free her human rights lawyer father from prison
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Up to 400,000 people in Eritrea enslaved by authoritarian government, UN inquiry finds. Eritreans are one of the largest groups crossing the Mediterranean
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No? Then it should think again about packing the corporation’s board with its own appointees, or face accusations of adopting the practices of eastern Europe
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Li is a top human rights lawyer who nearly a year ago slipped into a netherworld of the disappeared after a political crackdown
Turkey’s LGBT community is fighting for freedom. That’s why it’s a target for extremists