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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amnesty International urged authorities in Ecuador on Wednesday to implement a court ruling mandating the elimination of oil industry gas flares near populated areas in the Amazon and the provision of ...

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday ruled unanimously that a partial privative clause cannot bar judicial review on questions of fact and law. It held that judicial review of such questions is ...

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 ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Shell plc to answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta following their ...

A UN expert warned on Tuesday that policies on border protection and migration cannot nullify the absolute ban on returning a ...

Previously ousted South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday was sentenced to a suspended 18-month prison sentence by the ...