Ruling is culmination of decades of struggle against notorious Section 377, relic of British colonial rule ‘As Dr Martin Luther King Jr said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends...

Journalist murdered and aid workers gang-raped in the Terrain Hotel attack in 2016 ‘Today’s convictions and sentences represent a first step towards ending chronic impunity in South Sudan’ - Seif...

Embattled village is just one of 46 under-threat Palestinian communities in central West Bank ‘The court has … validated the discriminatory policies of the Israeli authorities’ - Saleh Higazi...

‘Law No 13’ means majority of country’s 1.9m migrant workers now free to leave country without employer’s permission, though domestic workers not covered Country urged to make wider labour reform a...

Warning comes ahead of crucial summit in Tehran on Friday ‘The lives of millions of people in Idlib are now in the hands of Russia, Turkey and Iran’ - Samah Hadid Ahead of the presidential summit set...

Responding to reports that the Home Office has revoked the passport and denied travel to the UK to six-year old Mohamed Barrak Diallo Bangoura following a holiday in Belgium, Allan Hogarth, Amnesty...

Reza Khandan has campaigned for his wife’s release and against women being forced to wear the veil in Iran Responding to the arrest in Iran this morning of Reza Khandan, the husband of prominent...

Those being targeted include lawyers and activists associated with the campaign against forced wearing of the hijab ‘The human rights situation in Iran has reached crisis point’ - Philip Luther The...

Two women in Malaysia have been caned after they were convicted of attempting to have consensual same-sex sexual relations with each other. The women were canned six times each in a courtroom in...

Responding to the news that Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of breaching Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act, Tirana Hassan...