The world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international…
The Cambodian government’s ongoing removal of a reported ten thousand families from the Angkor Wat temple complex amounts to mass…
Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other…
A young Iranian woman who fell into a coma after being arrested in Tehran by the notorious morality police died…
Facebook critics on Wednesday called on the world's largest social network to release a human rights impact assessment it commissioned…
Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by…
Alexei Navalny, the prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may…
Protesters took to the streets in several parts of Myanmar on Thursday, defying an increasingly brutal crackdown by security forces…
A mob in northwestern Pakistan attacked and set ablaze a century-old Hindu temple on Wednesday, officials said, prompting condemnations from…
A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday joined Facebook’s lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO, alleging that the company…
A prominent Baloch activist, Karima Baloch, who took on the Pakistan Army over human rights abuses in Balochistan, was found…
Rich countries have secured enough coronavirus vaccines to protect their populations nearly three times over by the end of 2021,…
The ban on high-speed internet in 18 out of 20 districts of Kashmir has been extended until November 12. In…
Human rights group Amnesty International stopped its work in India on Tuesday saying the government had frozen its bank accounts…
Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal…
Three people died of injuries sustained in intensifying protests against a new citizenship law in India on Thursday with thousands…
India’s central investigating agency raided the local offices of human rights group Amnesty International on Friday, the Central Bureau of…
Authorities in Kashmir have arrested nearly 4,000 people since the scrapping of its special status last month, government data shows,…
A month after India withdrew contested Kashmir’s autonomy, locked it down with thousands of additional troops and made mass arrests,…
For the first time in six days, India eased travel restrictions in some parts of Srinagar on Saturday, and people…
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