The Gambia will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses committed during ex-President Yahya Jammeh's rule, the justice minister has said. The finances of Mr Jammeh would...
In fluorescent uniforms, dozens of inmates blink in the afternoon sun as they line up in the yard for lunch, the low murmur of their chatter punctuated suddenly by a solitary plaintive cry. "This is...
The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that a "tidal wave of bloodshed" over more than six years of war in Syria had effectively turned the country into a "torture chamber". "As the conflict enters its...
Police in Tamale have confirmed the arrest of one of five suspects in connection with the torture of a 15-year old Junior High School (JHS) pupil of one of the basic schools within the Tamale...
There was no immediate response from the U. S. delegation to the 47-member state forum in Geneva. A U. N. human rights expert voiced alarm on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump might allow...
Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has demanded police arrest, and prosecute to the full extent of the law, persons in the video seen stripping and sexually assaulting a woman accused of theft in Kumasi,...
Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has demanded police arrest, and prosecute to the full extent of the law, persons in the video seen stripping and sexually assaulting a woman accused of theft in Kumasi,...
Rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai army to drop defamation charges against three activists over a landmark report on torture in the conflict-hit south, decrying the prosecution as an effort to...
A cabinet minister who claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects should be investigated for human rights abuses, Amnesty International has said. Uma Bharti, in charge of water...
Amnesty International called on Tuesday for an Indian cabinet minister to be investigated for human rights abuses after she claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects. Water resources...
An Indian minister says she made rape suspects beg for their lives and ordered police to torture them. Uma Bharti, the water resources minister, claims she told the men's accusers to watch as they...
A 22-year-old rape victim in Zimbabwe left many in shock when she asked a Magistrates Court to withdraw two counts of rape against a man who raped her, claiming that she has been bedding him on many...
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence" as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human rights abuses...
The gray, concrete building looms over the street in central Beijing. Completely unmarked aside from a street number, its entrance is buttressed by barriers and fencing. Inside lies an organization...
A human rights lawyer and lecturer at the Queens University, Belfast School of Law in the UK, Dr Yassin Brunger, wants individual countries to be responsible for the adjudication of violations...
Tunisians who suffered abuse under decades of authoritarian rule are to air their grievances live on TV. Thursday night's event, run by the country's Truth and Dignity Commission, aims to ease...
The US may have committed war crimes of torture, cruel treatment and rape, when it interrogate dozens of people in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2014, the International Criminal Court’s chief...
DRC: 'I can't tell my husband I was raped' Some mothers give positive names to the child born from rape Twenty-eight year old Carine* lives in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province in northeastern...
Al Jazeera speaks to the former secret prisoners, including two Libyans who opposed Gaddafi “In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things...
