Human rights

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
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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
Christian foster agency 'set up to fail by Ofsted'
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Tyne & Wear
Posted
6 May 2020
Is the world suffering from 'affluenza'? Newsday. Audio, 00:02:25
Former Amnesty head says we must reassess our obsession with wealth after covid outbreak
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BBC World Service
Posted
6 May 2020
Record 50.8 million internally displaced - report
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World
Posted
28 April 2020
'If I can't work, I can't feed my family'
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Business
Posted
24 April 2020
Jailed Iranian Instagram star 'has coronavirus'
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Middle East
Posted
18 April 2020
Yemen: calls for release of Baha'i prisoners. Newshour. Audio, 00:03:52
Yemen's Houthis accused of persecuting the Baha'i community
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BBC World Service
Posted
14 April 2020
Peru found responsible for torture of LGBT person
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Latin America & Caribbean
Posted
7 April 2020
Veteran civil rights leader Joseph Lowery dies
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US & Canada
Posted
28 March 2020
Anti-abortion nurses fail in European court case
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Europe
Posted
13 March 2020
Prisoners 'would jump' at the chance to vote. Video, 00:00:47
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Wales
Posted
8 March 2020
Human rights award for mum who fled Syria
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Manchester
Posted
6 March 2020
The gospel singer who died in a police cell
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Africa
Posted
29 February 2020
MSPs call for action over rendition flights probe
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Scotland politics
Posted
22 February 2020
Saudi-led forces face trials over Yemen violations
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Middle East
Posted
13 February 2020