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Taiwan has become the first country in Asia to legalise homosexual marriage

How author and human rights campaigner Zerbanoo Gifford was inspired by anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson

The US state of Virginia is among those taking steps to outlaw child marriage, with progress in Africa too

Hundreds of children in Benin have been freed in a significant victory against the damaging voodoo ‘convents’ in the country.

Billy Briggs meets the young women breaking new human rights ground in a conflict-plagued region

Groundbreaking training centre for protesters, developed in response to the use of social networks in the Arab spring, opens in Florence

Burma opens its doors to foreign journalists and relaxes protest laws

Sweden’s ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ has recognised the tremendous efforts of activists around the world working towards global harmony

A Frenchman has reached the halfway point in a kayaking voyage from Tunisia to Brussels, where he hopes to present a petition for asylum seekers’ rights to the European Parliament

A new international day aims to raise awareness of girls’ rights to education around the world

As a new wave of feminism is sweeping the globe, Emily Prichard reports on the impact it’s having on outdated values

Reporters in Burma no longer have to submit stories to state censors before publication, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD) has confirmed

Ecocide law could be closer than previously thought following discovery of documents revealing it was discussed by UN in the past

The US state of Connecticut has scrapped the death penalty after years of work by campaigners