Amnesty International on Thursday warned that India's weapons exports to Israel may violate international law and contribute ...

Amnesty International on Thursday raised alarm after Nicaragua’s announcement of a constitutional reform initiative that ...

UN human rights experts on Wednesday raised alarm over reports of torture, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention of ...

Pakistan-administered territories of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) are witnessing one of their most serious episodes of ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Thursday condemned the growing crackdown on fundamental freedoms in Uganda, raising concerns about the gradual erosion of the rule of law in ...

On August 1, 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 entered into force, formally abolishing slavery in the British Empire. Learn more about the Slavery Abolition Act.

A mass border breach at Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday has left at least 34 people dead after an estimated 60,000 attempted to cross into the territory, sparking what officials ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called for the immediate release of a social media commentator who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment for criticizing the Vietnamese government, stating ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres made a statement Wednesday calling for fresh talks to help rebuild trust between Cyprus island's two communities who remain divided, in a move to resolve the ...

A US federal judge in Nevada on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by FBI Director Kash Patel and his nonprofit ...

A US federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a Houston, Texas, city program establishing racial goals for public contracts ...

Men in plain clothes swung lathis — the long wooden batons Indian police carry for crowd control — at student protesters on New Delhi's Parliament Street on July 20, striking them alongside ...