The Philippine police chief said Monday his forces had "reloaded" and were back fighting their president's deadly war on drugs, just over a month after they were withdrawn because of widespread...
A military court postponed on Thursday the jailing of an Israeli soldier convicted of shooting dead a wounded Palestinian, pending his appeal. Elor Azaria was sentenced by a military court on...
A US drone on Thursday killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said, the first such attack in the country under the administration of new American President...
Photos showing hundreds of prisoners in a Philippine jail sitting naked while being searched for contraband have triggered accusations of further rights abuses in President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign to bring back the death penalty for drug-related crimes has cleared a major hurdle, with supporters backing it in congress but critics denouncing the...
The Acting Director of Amnesty International, Mr. Frank Doyi is advocating for the death penalty to be scrapped from the constitution because it is a human rights violation. According to him,...
The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has in recognition of its outstanding works been honourably ranked in the annual Global Go-To Think Tank Index report. The KAIPTC...
The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has been named sub-Sahara Africa’s topmost think- tank on the Global Go-to Think Thank ranking. The centre also ranked second out...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday he would recall police to fight his drug war, a month after he withdrew them and denounced the force as "corrupt to the core". "I need more men and I...
The government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must enact laws that will make the defence of homosexuals a treasonable offence in the country, the Movement for the Kingdom Image (MFKI) has...
Tanzania on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would "destroy evidence". Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had...
THE gaysim debate of whether to outlaw it or not in this country has been reignited. This time around Parliament has waded into the matter. ACCORDING to the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Honourable...
Russia on Sunday released a prominent opposition activist from jail, after a court quashed a sentence that made him the only person convicted under a tough law against public protests. Ildar Dadin,...
Police fired tear gas at hundreds of people Saturday as they marched through Togo's capital to protest the shutdown of two private media channels. Television station La Chaine du Futur and City FM...
Renowned Law lecturer, Moses Foh-Amoaning has been told to render an unqualified apology to the Board Chairman of Amnesty International Ghana, Mr. George Aggrey for describing him as a homosexual on...
The issue of homosexuality in Ghana, especially in the domain of public dissent, always seems to have a consensual opinion that it is a practice that is against the nature and culture of Ghanaians....
A Human Rights Advocate Moses Foh-Amoaning has described homosexuals as sick people who need psychiatric treatment and not sweet talks. Mr Foh-Amoaning who is a Representative of National Coalition...
Kenya has been ranked top in Africa in cases of police shootings and killing of civilians according to a report by Amnesty International shows. The report indicates that by October 2016, a total of...
Politicians wielding a toxic and dehumanising rhetoric such as the use of “us versus them” is creating a more divided and dangerous world, Amnesty International 2016/2017 annual report has...
Israel will stop issuing work visas to Human Rights Watch staff, the NGO said Friday, with the Jewish state accusing the group of being "fundamentally biased" against it. The New York-based watchdog,...
