The equality watchdog has completed its draft report into allegations of unlawful treatment of disabled benefit claimants by ...

Millions of women and girls remain without adequate legal protection due to the failure of African governments to enact and effectively enforce national laws and regional agreements, Equality Now ( ...

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is using this year’s International Day for Women in Maritime to press a sharper ...

Barney Frank, trailblazing Massachusetts congressman and Dodd-Frank co-author, dies at 86 after hospice care.

Joe Biden tried to "turn the page" on Trumpism, and it failed. We need deep structural change ...

This article is authored by Mousumi Roy, columnist, politics, culture and economic history.

The 2025 Act steps up enforcement, with the new Fair Work Agency, stronger record-keeping duties and an extended window for tribunal claims.

A wax sculptor who smuggled letters to America and am enslaved portrait artist were among the patriots whose stories are less ...

Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.

Without Spanish support, the bid for Independence might have failed, Felipe Fernández-Armesto says, and deep Latin ties ...

Here is a reading list of books about the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution as both mark 250 years.