The Nicaraguan parliament announced that it had approved the constitutional reform granting full powers to Daniel Ortega and ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Friday expressed grave concern over reports of summary executions of civilians in Khartoum North, Sudan, allegedly by fighters and militia ...

United Nations agencies on Friday called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as fighting between government forces and the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group expands ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

The Myanmar military government is currently facing its greatest challenge since taking power and is on the defensive in much of the country ...

United Nations (UN) agencies warn of worsening humanitarian and human rights crisis in eastern Democratic Republic (DR) Congo ...

Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed ...

Between January 21 and 27 alone, Israeli forces killed 20 Palestinians and injured 81, including 11 children, in attacks ...

The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary executions, the ...

The worsening conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is causing a human rights crisis, the UN human rights ...

Daniel Ortega, who is under Western sanctions for human rights abuses, had proposed the reform himself, which also lengthens ...