Since the return of the Taliban in 2021, Afghan women correspondents have chronicled the realities faced by women who, after some 20 years of increased freedom and opportunity, have been relegated ...

Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Sunday called on the Syrian government to hold accountable those who attacked peaceful protesters in front of the country's legislature. The human rights ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Rwanda-backed Congo River Alliance/March 23 Movement (AFC/M23) signed on Saturday a declaration of principles seeking to achieve peace and ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned an Israeli strike that struck Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Church on Thursday, calling the attack “unacceptable” and reiterating calls for an ...

Angolan police used excessive force and carried out arbitrary arrests during a peaceful protest in Luanda on July 12, Human ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday announced the revocation of US visas for eight of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices, in what officials described as part of a broader effort to support ...

A Moscow court fined the bookstore Falalster 800,000 rubles (approximately $10,000) and its founder, Boris Kupriyanov, ...

A UN expert on Thursday condemned Israel's violence on Palestinian women and girls, calling it a “femi-genocide,” and accusing the Israeli government of deliberate killing with the 'intent to ...

US House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of House Resolution 4 (HR4), which will retract approximately $9 billion in funds that had already been allocated for the next two fiscal ...

El Salvador’s most prominent human rights organization officially ceased operations in the country Thursday due to increasing repression against civil society groups. The organization, Cristosal, ...

France officially transferred control of its last military installations in Senegal to local authorities in a ceremony on Thursday, concluding over 350 French troops’ permanent deployment since ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called for urgent accountability and a halt to escalating violence in the southern Syrian city of Suweida on Friday, following credible reports of mass killings, ...