Tag: Human Rights Watch

US President Donald Trump meets his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington on Monday, welcoming a strongman leader who ...

Kenya's police chief Saturday ordered an investigation after a video circulated on social media showing a police officer killing a ...

Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an ...

Police have made a sixth arrest in connection with a brutal mob attack on Nigerian students in northern India that ...

The Ethiopian parliament has extended by four months a state of emergency it declared six months ago after almost a ...

People living in Ghana’s mining communities may now be better protected from deadly mercury poisoning. On March 23, Ghana ratified ...

Arab leaders gathered for an annual summit in Jordan Wednesday looking to overcome divisions on regional crises including the devastating ...

Arab leaders are set to meet in Jordan on Wednesday for their annual summit with no expected breakthrough on resolving ...

An Ivory Coast court has found former first lady Simone Gbagbo not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity ...

President Omar al-Bashir will attend an Arab League summit in Amman this week, Sudan's foreign minister said Sunday, despite a ...

A Singaporean teenager who was jailed twice after insulting the island's late leader Lee Kuan Yew and religious groups has ...

The United Nations commission of inquiry for South Sudan now has broader powers to pursue human rights abuses in the ...

The Gambia will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses committed during ex-President Yahya Jammeh's rule, the ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned Thursday he may impose martial law and suspend elections for tens of thousands of local ...

Iraqis should not carry out hurried or ad hoc exhumations of mass graves left by jihadists, as this makes identifying ...

Pakistan on Monday ordered the border with Afghanistan to be reopened "immediately", a month after it was closed amid soaring ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has described European lawmakers as "crazies" in a salty-tongued rebuttal to criticism of his deadly drug ...

With his department reeling over President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts and the international community worried, US Secretary of State ...

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said 155 people, including 15 children, were killed in fierce fighting that erupted late last ...

Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo said Wednesday the nation's drug war had left Filipinos feeling "hopeless and helpless", with trust ...