Human Rights Watch
Outrage After Philippine Police Linked To Killing Reinstated
Legislators and human rights advocates angrily denounced the Philippine government on Friday for reinstating 19...
China Won’t Pay Price For Nobel Winner’s Death
When China allowed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo to die in police custody, it made a bet that world governments were more...
Baghdad Probing Rights Abuses By Iraqi Forces
Baghdad is investigating allegations of torture and rights abuses meted out by Iraqi security forces to Islamic State...
Videos Appear To Show Killing, Beatings By Iraq Forces
Videos allegedly shot in the Mosul area appear to show Iraqi security personnel executing a detainee and brutally...
Tillerson Leaves Gulf With No End In Sight To Qatar Crisis
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday wrapped up a four-day mission to the Gulf with little sign of progress...
Rights Group Praises ‘overdue’ Saudi Reform On Girl Sports
Rights campaigners on Thursday welcomed an "overdue" reform in Saudi Arabia to allow girls to take part in sports at...
Rwandan Forces Killing Suspects Without Trial
The soldiers came at dawn to Fulgence Rukundo's house in a village in western Rwanda, and accused him of stealing a...
‘Bandits’ Kill 6 Police In Kenya’s Laikipia Region
At least six police officers were killed and four injured in Laikipia in Kenya's central highlands on Wednesday in the...
Family of China’s Ailing Nobel Laureate Declines Artificial…
The family of China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo declined to let doctors put him on artificial...
Indonesia President Inks Decree To Ban Radical Groups
Indonesia has issued a decree allowing it to ban groups that oppose its official state ideology, in a move seen to...
China’s Nobel Laureate Suffers Organ Failure
The hospital treating China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo offered a grim update on his health on...
Activists Criticise Senegal’s Slow Progress On Child Begging
Human rights groups in Senegal on Tuesday criticised what it said is an ineffectual crackdown on child begging driven...
Sudan Hopes Trump Takes ‘courageous’ Decision To Lift Sanctions
Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington's sanctions on...
Absence of Victims Leaves Holes In Juba Hotel Trial
Witnesses described looting and finding a dead body, but the trial of 12 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers...
Bangladesh Opposition Activists Held In Secret Detention
Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed,...
With Demolitions, China Squeezes Buddhist Academy
The hills around revered Tibetan Buddhist academy Larung Gar were once a seamless carpet of vibrant red, dominated by...
Kenya’s Main Candidates Pull Out of Televised Election Debate
Both Kenya's leading presidential contenders have pulled out of two planned televised debates ahead of the August 8...
Via Social Media, Priest Recounts Horror of Central Africa Violence
"Heavy gunfire in Zemio. Impossible to go out. They have cut the phones and we can't go out -- it's just too dangerous....
EU’s Kenya Election Observers Warn Against Possible Violence
The EU warned Monday of possible violence in Kenya's elections as it deployed observers ahead of the August 8 poll...