Human rights

Silence over detained Saudi women's rights campaigner. Newsday. Audio, 00:03:15
"We're... trying to advocate for her release and that's the price we're paying"
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BBC World Service
Posted
21 July 2020
Iran halts execution of three young protesters
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Middle East
Posted
19 July 2020
Swedish ex-ambassador acquitted in China case
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Europe
Posted
10 July 2020
Woman wins landmark case on terminally ill rules
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Northern Ireland
Posted
8 July 2020
Witness History. The unlawful death of Christopher Alder. Audio, 9 minutes
The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
UK imposes sanctions against human rights abusers
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UK Politics
Posted
6 July 2020
Turkey jails Amnesty activists in 'terrorism' case
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Europe
Posted
3 July 2020
'Forced labour' Chinese hair imports seized by US
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China
Posted
2 July 2020
Storyville. Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge. Video, 89 minutes
A Storyville documentary that lays bare Chechnya's deadly war against its gay citizens.
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BBC Four
Available for 10 months
China 'using birth control' to suppress Uighurs
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China
Posted
29 June 2020
Facial recognition tech 'not legal'
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Wales
Posted
23 June 2020
Opposition scorns 'hoax' vote in EU candidate state
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Europe
Posted
20 June 2020
UN takes Saudi coalition off child 'list of shame'
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Middle East
Posted
16 June 2020
Witness History. Three Strikes Law. Audio, 15 minutes
One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Bahraini human rights activist freed from jail
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Middle East
Posted
9 June 2020
Calls to ban LGBT 'conversion therapy' in UK
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UK Politics
Posted
5 June 2020
'Permission to kill' condemned in Duterte drug war
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Asia
Posted
4 June 2020
Scotland's largest prison 'not fit for purpose'
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Scotland
Posted
27 May 2020
Call for more testing of care home residents
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Wales
Posted
24 May 2020
They grabbed my breasts and said, 'You're not a woman'
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Stories
Posted
18 May 2020
French-Iranian academic jailed for six years in Iran. Newshour. Audio, 00:07:03
France strongly condemns the conviction of Fariba Adelkhah on national security charges
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BBC World Service
Posted
17 May 2020
Germany passes ban on 'gay conversion therapy'
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Europe
Posted
8 May 2020