A parent has taken concerns about religious teaching to the Human Rights Commission in the latest effort to remove the lessons from state school time.

Samsung said 59 suppliers failed to provide adequate safety equipment for workers as the smartphone maker struggles to improve labour standards in China.

British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell says Britain would not abuse diplomatic immunity because it is there for a good reason.

Dress from a British retail store contained a label reading 'forced to work exhausting hours'.

Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Jackie Blue is calling for targets to close gender and ethnic pay gaps in the public service.

A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison, according to her lawyer.

The image of Tank Man quickly became a powerful symbol of the Tiananmen Square massacre but the fate of the ‘unknown rebel’ is still debated.

Police broke the law and breached the human rights of hundreds of people when they blocked a Chch street for seven hours to check 200 cars, the IPCA has ruled.

A survey on how family violence affects victims' work is "chilling but compulsory" reading for Government leaders, the Human Rights Commission says.

The father of a transgender beauty pageant contestant says he lost a son but gained a daughter in accepting her.

A Hamilton girl has taken out the New Zealand final of an inaugural pub beauty pageant.

Contestants of a "battle of the babes" competition say they're looking forward to competing against a transgender teenager at the NZ final tonight.

'Help, help, help', started the note found by a shopper buying boots from a New York department store, from a man claiming to be held in a Chinese prison factory.

Women earn less than men because they are seen as pushovers when they don't negotiate hard and are seen as "ball-breakers" when they do, a psychologist says.

A petrol station attendant believes she was let go from her job when a new lessee took over because she was pregnant.

Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.

It's all part of Tony Abbott's vision of a new Liberal dawn. The Oz PM's conservative Government intends to dilute racial vilification laws to enshrine the right of Australians to be bigots.

Australia's federal Attorney-General George Brandis is serious when he says on his watch, "people do have a right to be bigots".

Should employers keep unsuccessful job candidates' details private? Can they? A recent case highlighted by the Herald might have left doubt in some minds.

The law is not always an ass but it can produce an absurdity. The decision to allow a failed job seeker access to his competitors' CVs is one of them.

A 62-year-old job seeker who is accusing an energy firm of age discrimination has won a legal battle to view the CVs of the people who beat him to the job.

Viktor Yanukovych, the ruler whose attempt to put down a protest movement with brutal force started his own downfall, is now a fugitive with a warrant issued against him.

The fatal riot at the immigration detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island continues to drag down the Australian Government.

A popular Ponsonby bar has been caught out advertising jobs for women only, a day after the Herald revealed that Masala restaurant in Stanmore Bay had done the same.