human rights

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria’s new Islamist rulers have killed more than 340 people, including women and children from the Alawite minority, in the country’s coastal region since…

Afghanistan’s Taliban Thursday called on neighbors Pakistan and Iran to be patient with Afghan refugees and follow an organized process for their return, considering Afghanistan’s economic challenges. Mawlawi Abdul Kabir,…

Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the World Court for allegedly violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention by arming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces,…

A Scottish Sikh man detained in India for seven years on terror charges has been cleared in one of nine cases against him. Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was arrested…

The United Nations chief warned Monday that human rights were being “suffocated” globally, including by wars and violence as well as autocrats crushing opposition and trampling on international law. “Human…

Italy’s foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of reporter Cecilia Sala, who was detained in Tehran on Dec 19 while working under a…

At least 27 migrants, including women and children, died after two boats capsized off central Tunisia, with 83 people rescued, a civil defence official told on Thursday. The rescued and…

Thousands gathered in the heart of Bangladesh’s capital to join a ‘March for Unity,’ demanding capital punishment for the country’s ousted former premier, Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India. The…

Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, the Biden administration said it would fully support a transparent and inclusive transition process toward a nonsectarian government accountable to the…

The main commander of the fighters who toppled Bashar al-Assad said that he would dissolve the security forces of the former regime, close its prisons, and hunt down anyone involved…