Human Rights

The Philippines’ embattled Supreme Court chief justice has called on Filipinos to stand up against authoritarianism and threats to human…

Syria’s government may allow an aid convoy with supplies for 180,000 people to go to the town of Douma in…

Controversy surrounds Saudi Twitter ads depicting Moroccan women for sale as domestic servants in the oil-rich kingdom. The case has…

Egypt’s Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek ordered on Wednesday prosecution lawyers across Egypt to monitor media outlets and social media platforms to…

In his speech to the high-level segment of the 37th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in…

A young Egyptian woman which a recent BBC report alleged had been “forcibly disappeared” in Egypt appeared on television on…

Organizers of anti-government marches in Congo say security forces shot dead at least four people and wounded dozens more in…

A court in Tanzania sentenced two opposition leaders to five months in prison on Monday for insulting President John Magufuli,…

In response to a recent visual and written BBC report entitled ‘The shadows over Egypt’, which addresses the country’s human…

The witness accounts remain appalling. One South Sudanese man returned home after hiding from government soldiers to find they had…