The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

Amnesty International has called for a “thorough, impartial and independent” probe into the recent two killings of blasphemy ...

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.

Under Giorgia Meloni’s plan, Albania will process asylum claims for Italy. Successful claimants will be moved to Italy, while ...

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

India must stop its "witch hunt" against civil society groups under the pretext of tackling money laundering or terrorism ...

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

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Israel to implement a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution demanding the end to its ...

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

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