Nicaragua's constitutional reform gives the state more power against media in ways replicated in countries that penalize ...

For two days, on December 12 and 13, Armenian and international experts gathered in Yerevan to discuss genocide risk factors ...

Russian advances on the front line have been accompanied for nearly a year by an unprecedented number of executions of ...

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UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has welcomed the proclamation of the Second International Decade for People of African ...

Arbitrary arrests and ensuing detention of civilians remain a serious human rights concern in South Sudan, according to a ...

The Office of Liberia’s War and Economic Crimes Courts is facing eviction in from its rental space as the ongoing battle with government for funding reaches a crisis point. By Anthony Stephens with ...

More than a week after Bashar al-Assad fled Syria and his regime collapsed, hundreds of thousands of Syrians still have no ...

The NGO ‘Comité por la Libertad de los Presos Políticos’ (Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, Clippve) reported ...

The road to Damascus tells the story of a new Syria emerging from 54 years of authoritarian rule by one family, the Assads.

Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) solemnly commemorates the third anniversary of Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, coinciding with ...

Commissioner Volker Turk indicates he is ‘deeply concerned’ about the violence following Venezuela’s contested election.