Tag: Social Issues

The minority in parliament has condemned the invasion of the residence of former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, by the ...

Zimbabwe's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill amending the constitution to give the president sweeping powers to appoint the country's ...

Rescuers coming to the aid of a dinghy packed with migrants off the coast of Libya said Tuesday they had ...

Senate Republicans vote Tuesday on the latest effort to repeal Obamacare, in the face of withering criticism from President Donald ...

Hundreds of young Nigerians marched on the country's parliament on Tuesday, calling for lawmakers to remove age barriers on political ...

US President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to Republican senators to rally behind their healthcare bill, on the eve ...

A Vietnamese activist was jailed for nine years on Tuesday for "anti-state activity", her lawyer said, the second such heavy ...

Doctors on Wednesday will examine a 10-year-old raped by her uncle as India's top court considers whether she should be ...

Japan aims to cut suicides by 30 percent over 10 years, with the government Tuesday approving a plan which seeks ...

All-female police units are shaking up the male-dominated force in conservative northwest India, hitting the streets to combat sex crimes ...

Africans have few means to protect themselves against human rights abuses, many of which are perpetrated by their own leaders. ...

President Donald Trump strongly warned Republicans on Monday that they must pass health care reform, taking his party to task ...

Fiji rugby stars Josaia Raisuqe and Vuidravuwalu Waisea are to be tried for a combination of drunken violence and sexual ...

Only 30 percent of $1.4 billion aid needed in 2017 for refugees fleeing the conflict in South Sudan has been ...

US authorities on Monday charged the driver of the overheated truck found in Texas packed with migrants with one count ...

Libya's coastguard rescued at least 150 migrants who were trying to reach Europe on Monday, after their inflatable boat had ...

The head of US homeland security says the deaths of nine people inside an overheated truck packed with migrants in ...

A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in ...

Four people were killed in suicide bomb attacks at a camp for those displaced by the Boko Haram conflict in ...

Swaziland, which bears the world's heaviest HIV burden, has halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting ...