Tag: Human Rights Watch

A prominent Bangladeshi magazine editor on bail for charges of plotting to kill the prime minister's son said Thursday he ...

An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a soldier to 18 months in prison for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian ...

An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a soldier to 18 months in prison for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir vowed Tuesday that government would ensure aid could reach areas hit by famine after three ...

Upcoming Syria peace talks remain focused on negotiating a "political transition" in the war-ravaged country, the UN mediator's office said ...

Rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai army to drop defamation charges against three activists over a landmark report on ...

Women have revealed the horrors they endured at the hands of ISIS sex slaves - despite being Sunni Muslims just ...

Cambodia's parliament passed a law Monday giving judges sweeping powers to dissolve political parties, a move seen as a brazen ...

Fighters from the Islamic State group, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Sunni ...

Hundreds of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar have returned home, community leaders said Sunday, adding ...

A UN investigative panel is pressing the Syrian government to hand over the names of commanders, military units and other ...

The United Nations remains wary of security in the Central African Republic as violence persists in the outskirts of the ...

An air strike killed eight women and a child at a funeral reception near the Yemeni capital, witnesses said Thursday, ...

Syria's government on Wednesday fiercely denied accusations by Human Rights Watch that it used chemical weapons in its battle for ...

Clashes have forced 600 people to flee their homes in central Mali as traditional herding communities battle with farmers over ...

A cabinet minister who claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects should be investigated for human rights abuses, ...

A huge newly-built Ethiopian dam is cutting off the supply of water to Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, threatening the ...

A huge newly-built Ethiopian dam is cutting off the supply of water to Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, rights group ...

Amnesty International called on Tuesday for an Indian cabinet minister to be investigated for human rights abuses after she claimed ...

Syrian government forces carried out at least eight chemical attacks during the final weeks of the battle for Aleppo, killing ...