A candidate for president in Tunisia has been sentenced to 20 months in prison on election fraud charges that his attorney ...

A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Thursday to jailed Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero ...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law, including a man who ...

The UN General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its ...

The first person convicted under a tough new Hong Kong national security law has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for ...

Azerbaijani rights defender and climate advocate Anar Mammadli was picking up his son from kindergarten when police arrested ...

The U.S. mission to the U.N. called the resolution "one-sided," pointing to its failure to recognize that Hamas, "a terrorist ...

The vote comes after the UN’s top court said in July that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal.

The move is a response to the geopolitical urgency of enlargement and the EU's spiralling reputation in its southern ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the Lesotho government to investigate allegations of torture and extrajudicial ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on world leaders to help secure the release of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti ahead of the 10-year anniversary of his conviction. The rights group ...

India's top court ordered authorities on Tuesday to pause demolishing private property as punitive action against people ...