The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...

A group of people clashed with police in China's northwestern Shaanxi province in a rare protest outside a vocational school ...

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A senior official of the European Investment Bank says the regional lending agency is keen to double its funding for ...

A Vietnamese court sentenced a prominent former lawyer to three years in jail Friday over Facebook posts it ruled undermined ...

A UN committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted refugee ...

Caracas Archbishop Raúl Biord opened the jubilee year in Venezuela with a call for “respect for human and citizen rights.” ...

Gideon Kibet had just stepped off a bus on Christmas Eve when four masked men surrounded him and forced him into a car. The ...

Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in ...

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As we celebrate President Carter’s remarkable life, we are reminded of the profound impact one individual can have on the ...

The number of people killed in Gaza is significantly higher than the figure reported by authorities in the enclave, a ...