Concerned by the arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers by some States, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent reforms to halt this detrimental practice. Releasing its latest advocacy ...

The UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday released a statement calling upon authorities in Guinea-Bissau to bring an immediate end to arbitrary detention and ...

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Across every region, human rights defenders (HRDs) continue to be arbitrarily detained for their work, sometimes for days, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a press encounter at the UN headquarters in New York, Dec. 17, 2025. Guterres ...

For years, the Ethiopian armed forces and other security services, including the police, have detained hundreds of civilians for allegedly being ONLF members or supporters. Periods in detention ...

A Christian man was freed from an Egyptian prison last month after three years of detention over Facebook posts he shared among an online group of converts from Christianity to Islam. Abdulbaqi Saeed ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The following field note is a short account of last Friday’s historic ruling by a top United Nations panel that Julian Assange ...

As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if he is extradited to the U.S. under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes, Amnesty ...

The Australia government last week signed onto a joint statement calling for an end to arbitrary detention of citizens in state-to-state relations, following recent incidents in Iran, China, Russia, ...

Everyone has the right to liberty and security of the person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in ...