The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, which grants every police force in Britain, MI5 and a broad range of other governmental bodies the power to authorise undercover agents to commit crimes, has passed its third reading in the Commons
A new report from Christian Aid calls for people and institutions who believe in gender justice to join forces with secular feminists to protect progress on women's rights.
The scourge of modern day slavery is likely to increase as a result of environmental degradation, migration and demographic shifts, UN expert Urmila Bhoola says.
Over the last five years, more than 14,000 armed attacks on education took place in 34 conflict-affected countries that suffer these attacks systematically, new and updated data from the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack found.
Lutheran women and men from around the world are taking part in the 63rd session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, advocating for increased partnerships between governments and faith-based organisations to ensure social protection for women.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by a fast-developing humanitarian situation in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparked by mass returns from Angola over the last two weeks.
The Lutheran World Federation has congratulated physician Dr Denis Mukwege, who with human rights activist Nadia Murad, has received the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018.
Requiring women to reveal a rape in order to receive subsistence benefits to which they are legally entitled is a breach of the human rights act, campaigners say.
There is an urgent need to address past and ongoing human rights violations and abuses and deliver justice for all people in Kashmir, says the United Nations.