Reform's 'lethal force' on small boats targets desperate human lives
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Human Rights News, Live and Structured
Real-time human rights news, structured for developers. NewsMesh surfaces human rights coverage from outlets across 35 countries and serves it as clean JSON, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body. Pull it with full-text search (GET /v1/search?q=) and layer category, country, or date filters on top, no scraping required.
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Israel pupil, 15, killed, over 20 hurt, after suspected leftover bomb detonates
An Israeli teenager was killed and more than 20 other people injured Monday by a suspected leftover Hezbollah bomb as they hiked near the Lebanese border, officials said. The Is...
Rights groups urge social media platforms to resist Turkish orders to block accounts
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — More than a dozen human rights groups urged social media platforms, including X, on Monday to resist Turkish court orders blocking hundreds of accounts bel...
Robot gropes 16-year-old girl: Police seize droid after sexual 'assault' is livestreamed
Social media footage shows two men walking behind the 1.2m tall red and gold robot as it approaches a group of girls in a busy area of Ringstrasse in the city centre.
In 2006, William Shatner’s Kidney Stone Was Auctioned Off, and the Money Went to Build a Habitat for Humanity Home
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Sánchez, recibido con pitidos e insultos a su llegada al desfile del día de la Hispanidad
3-Legged Mountain Lion Cub Finds Forever Home and Is Given ‘Second Chance at Life’ After Being Abandoned By His Mom
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Senegal’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ people forces them to go into hiding, rights watchdog says
Senegal's crackdown on LGBTQ+ people forces them to go into hiding, rights watchdog says
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Kate Marland: Tearing down B.C. Human Rights Tribunal should be only the start
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Prisons boss won’t say who asked for human rights law carve-out
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Prisons boss won’t say who asked for human rights law carve-out
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Nigeria: une vingtaine de morts dans deux attaques
Une vingtaine de personnes ont été tuées par des hommes armés lors de deux attaques distinctes ce week-end dans le nord-ouest et le centre du Nigeria.
Nigeria: une vingtaine de morts dans deux attaques
Une vingtaine de personnes ont été tuées par des hommes armés lors de deux attaques distinctes ce week-end dans le nord-ouest et le centre du Nigeria.
Népal: les secours toujours à la recherche des disparus après la dernière crue
Les secours poursuivent leurs efforts lundi pour tenter de retrouver au moins cinq personnes portées disparues après la crue soudaine au Népal.
The Taliban Are Using Europe’s Fear of Migrants to Their Advantage
European nations that condemn the Taliban government for its human rights record are seeking its help to deport refugees back to Afghanistan.
Trump's homeland security chief defends public execution of wheelchair-bound murderer as part of president's move to 'restore American values'
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Human Rights News coverage
NewsMesh surfaces human rights coverage from sources across 35 countries, normalised into one structured feed you can query by keyword, category, country, and date.
Pull Human Rights News into your app
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?q=human+rights). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?apiKey=nm_xxx&q=human+rights&limit=20"Endpoints
GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.
Guides
Frequently asked questions about Human Rights News
How do I pull human rights news from the API?
Call GET /v1/search?q=human rights with your apiKey to return recent human rights stories as structured JSON. Add &category= or &country= to narrow the results.
What does NewsMesh tag on each human rights story?
Every human rights article carries its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can route and filter without your own NLP layer.
Can I combine human rights with category or country filters?
Yes. Add &category=technology (or business, politics, and more) and &country=us (or any ISO country code) to the search query to focus the feed.
Is human rights news available in real time?
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: human rights stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
How do I access the human rights news feed?
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Need more human rights articles?
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.