Those reporting on Russia are rarely surprised these days to learn that another critic of the Russian government is being ...

Criminal gangs have carried out a spate of violent attacks targeting civil society and opposition gatherings ahead of the ...

The Punjab provincial assembly in Pakistan on August 31, 2026 passed a bill that would threaten the right to a fair trial in ...

The Minsk City Court sentenced human rights lawyer Dmitri Laevski on September 9 to three years in prison for “aiding an ...

A court in Azerbaijan on September 7 sentenced the prominent human rights defender and election monitor Anar Mammadli to 13 ...

Without warning, Pakistan has directed all medical and dental institutions to expel Afghan students and arrange to send them ...

Chinese lawyer Ruth Wang fled to Taiwan on September 2 after authorities threatened to shut down her law firm. Her offense?

The Australian government has caused thousands of people seeking asylum to suffer grave abuses under its offshore detention ...

A military court in Jakarta reduced the prison sentences and overturned the dishonorable discharge of two of the four ...

States at the final session of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal ...

Barely a week after African leaders met in Luanda, Angola to strengthen the African Union’s conflict prevention capacity, ...

Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...