The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference has become for the environment what the Olympics and FIFA World Cup are to sports and Eurovision ... the focus to the regime’s abysmal record on ...

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Human rights advocates are calling for an independent investigation into the deadly explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies ...

The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly ...

Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She has researched human rights in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New ...

Islamist insurgents in Burkina Faso have stepped up attacks on civilians, carrying out door-to-door killings, slitting ...

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Groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL accused of ‘massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshippers’.

Jihadist groups in Burkina Faso have escalated attacks on civilians, often in retaliation against communities for refusing to ...

The NGO urges governments to improve protection schemes, grant legal status and reverse "onerous visa requirements" for ...

China is among those countries that retaliates against people for engaging with the United Nations and tries hard to silence ...

In addition to attacks on schools and hospitals, civilians have also been subjected to torture and sexual violence.