Campaigner, Dr Ebun Joseph, talks to Shamim Malekmian about social injustice, being a middle child, and the battle to get Ireland’s first black studies university course on the curriculum in UCD.

A Swedish student activist has prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum-seeker by buying a ticket for the flight scheduled to remove him and refusing to sit down, preventing the plane from taking off.

Activist Christina Noble has told of her terror after an intruder held her at knifepoint in her own home.

From visiting the White House and the United Nations to taking selfies with former US vice-president Joe Biden, Irishwoman Sinéad Burke is blazing an international trail.

Demonstrators have gathered in central Istanbul to protest over the rape and killing of a transgender woman and LGBT activist.

Human rights activist Irom Sharmila has ended her hunger strike, the world’s longest, which protested alleged army atrocities in northeast India. She wants to contest local elections.

A Chinese legal rights activist was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to subversion charges on Wednesday.

A court in China has imposed a three-year suspended sentence on a human rights activist charged with subversion of state power, following a brief trial.

A bank-appointed receiver has secured a High Court injunction requiring anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy and several others to vacate a commercial premises in Dublin.