Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months amid an ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on countries Friday to urgently repatriate their nationals from Syrian detainment camps, where thousands remain trapped in life-threatening conditions. The ...

President Donald Trump recently suggested relocating the entire population of Gaza. Experts say this could worse the ...

Human Rights Watch reacted to the recent vandalisation of Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's house in Dhaka and said 'lawlessness' was not justified.

We really call for the end of the impunity," says Dr. Semia Sadfi Charbonnier, echoing global outcry against violence against ...

Officials in Beijing, however, soon deemed the gatherings a threat. In August 1995, key organizers were arrested, prompting ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist.

The United Nations leadership and its member countries need a backup plan to ensure lifesaving UN humanitarian aid and human ...

Two Aboriginal women have described “disgusting” conditions inside a Northern Territory watch house, claiming to have been ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, she was just a mother — a mom trying to win freedom for her son who has ...

A Supreme Court lawyer, Virendra Vashistha, has petitioned the NHRC over the treatment of Indian migrants deported from the US. He condemned the use of restraints during transit, calling it inhumane.