Amnesty International said on Friday there was compelling evidence that Russian troops had committed war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area...
Russia’s highest court on Tuesday shut down one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on...
Israel on Friday designated six Palestinian civil society groups as terrorist organizations and accused them of funneling donor aid to militants, a charge rejected by human...
Police in Labrador say the death last week of Inuk activist Diem Saunders, formerly Delilah Saunders, was not suspicious. The RCMP say their the investigation into...
Amnesty International on Monday accused the Lebanese authorities of relentlessly and shamelessly obstructing the investigation into last year’s deadly Beirut port blast. A year after the...
Lebanon’s president said Wednesday there would be no political cover for anyone implicated in last year’s massive explosion at the Beirut port, speaking a day after...
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say Canada detains thousands of asylum seekers every year in often abusive conditions where people of colour appear to be...
The two main hospitals treating people with COVID-19 in Afghanistan have had to close their doors to new patients because of a lack of beds, a...
The Taliban, in a rambling commentary published on their website, expressed frustration with what they describe as additional U.S. demands in peace talks – even after...
Amnesty International said Saturday that Saudi Arabia’s explanation of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul appeared to be a whitewash of “an...
Austrian officials rejected an Iraqi migrant’s asylum application because he was too “girlish”, local media say. The 27-year-old’s claim to be gay was deemed “unbelievable”, in...
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