Human rights
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UK fails to apply environmental law on air quality, water standards, and the conservation of several species, EU review reveals
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Editorial: The lawyer betrayed the soldiers who faced fake charges. He betrayed the law. But human rights has never mattered more
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Tribunal had found Shiner guilty of charges including dishonesty over false witness accounts about UK soldiers’ actions
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Tech folk: 'Move fast and break things' doesn't work when lives are at stake
Keith Hiatt, Michael Kleinman and Mark Latonero
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Former development secretary Andrew Mitchell hints at need for independent inquiry into alleged humanitarian law violations by Saudi Arabia in Yemen
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The reported disappearance of the financier, who has ties to Xi Jinping’s family, will ring alarm bells in the former British colony
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Phil Shiner acted as though ‘ends justified means’ pursuing false allegations against British soldiers, disciplinary tribunal told
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The Victorian premier once celebrated for promoting diversity and inclusion is adopting punitive approaches to youths in detention, sparking strong warnings from human rights advocates
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Lack of legal clarity forces thousands of women to endure backstreet abortions in Pakistan. A helpline is providing information and support, but fears losing funding after Trump reinstated the global gag rule
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Crackdown after failed coup and prison conditions in Romania and Hungary fuel spike in human rights court applications
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‘We’ll be tattooed and taken to camps … To those who say that’s impossible: we thought Trump winning was impossible’
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Human Rights Watch says boys detained in Kurdistan region said they had been beaten, burned and given electric shocks
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Rare statement cites China’s own laws that prohibit torture in condemnation of mistreatment of detained rights lawyer Xie Yang and others
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Court of appeal to hear challenge to cutting of sentence from code obliging ministers to comply with treaty and legal requirements
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It is difficult to gather useful information through torture, and attempting to do so can have far-reaching consequences
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Nabeel Rajab has been in custody since June 2016 after writing an article for the New York Times about human rights abuses in his country
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Trump gives first presidential TV interview as draft executive order points to return to practices such as waterboarding
The Guardian view on Syrian war crimes: searching for a road to justice