Documents were leaked detailing examples of harrowing abuse, sexual assault, child abuse and self-harm attempts in a Nauru's detention centre.

Philippine President Duterte has effectively signed death warrants of up to 50 drug-dealing officials as the street execution toll soars to 600.

Three intellectually disabled men are suing Govt for upwards of $100,000 each, alleging human rights abuses while in state care.

The Turkish president said that he would reinstate the death penalty to deal with those who took park in the coup attempt

A petition for an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit has garnered more than 2000 signatures in a day.

The family of an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit have launched a petition calling for the minister of health to intervene in his case.

Elderly, mentally ill patients were subjected to the "prolonged and excessive" use...

COMMENT: We're on the right track, but need to build on our achievements if we want to trade on the world stage.

The 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill is being celebrated around the country today. Prominent Kiwis talk about what it means to them.

Saturday marks 30 years since that milestone in the gay rights movement, an anniversary that will be celebrated in Parliament tonight.

Organizers read the names of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting and held a moment of silence Saturday during Cincinnati's parade and festival events celebrating Gay, Lesbian,....

A leading human rights lawyer says the door is now "wide open" for Ashley Peacock to take health authorities to court

Associate health minister Sam Lotu-Iiga has been assured Ashley Peacock is 'being cared for in the best way possible'.

The fight over gay rights in Florida has been contentious for a decade and flared anew earlier this year.

Lizzie Marvelly is right; every woman should be able to make her own choices.

She's young, beautiful and studying politics and philosophy. But this young Danish woman isn't your average uni student.

A transgender woman who claims she was forced out of her job at an Auckland barbershop has been cleared to pursue her claim of unjustified dismissal

COMMENT: We should be focussing on providing clean, filtered water to as many people as possible, because it is a basic human right, writes Sam Judd. Not selling water off to an overseas company.

A mother is still battling the Government in court over pay for the care of her disabled son, despite repeated decisions in her favour.

Dr Tony Ellis today said his client, Kyung Yup Kim, who Chinese authorities want extradited for allegedly murdering a prostitute, was locked up 19 hours a day.

New Zealand will deport a murder suspect to China to face charges after assurances about his treatment and that the death penalty would be waived.

A stocktake on women's place in New Zealand says many women are still treated as "second-class citizens".

Australia has been grilled over its human rights record this week, appearing in the hot seat before the UN Human Rights Council for a performance review.

Police have interviewed a man over claims a prostitute wrote a note seeking help and secretly handed it to him.

It is frustrating that serious human rights abuses in Indonesian-controlled West Papua continue to fly below the radar, Maire Leadbeater.

Kiwis have been "caught up in the net" of a harsher policy and are likely facing tough conditions in deportation centres such as that on Christmas Island, Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs says.

A low number of female CEOs can be ascribed to institutionalised misogyny, claims new research from Columbia Business School in New York.

To raise awareness and money to help TearFund's fight against human trafficking, Petra Bagust and her family will live off just $2.25 per person a day.

There's a specific strain of online-shaming that's become popular: Women publicly sharing the offensive private messages they receive.

Woman who accused male solicitor of sexism after he described her photo on a business website as 'stunning' has previously told men they were 'hot stuff'.