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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urges Israel to shift from high-intensity warfare; HRW accuses Israel of war crimes

Interior ministry issues letter after HRW cites risks in deportation

President of Genocide Watch warns a massacre could happen in India if stern actions were not taken by government

Report says Pakistani authorities expanded use of 'draconian sedition and counterterrorism laws to stifle dissent'

'Indian authorities have failed the Kashmiri people and have long denied them justice'

Report criticises Indian government for its failure to not review or repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act

More than 10 cases of child abuse are reported daily in Pakistan

Demand that Iran immediately announces the number of deaths, arrests and detentions

Seen as an important tool have long sparked controversy as war against the Taliban intensifies

As Israel accuses Omar Shakir of advocating a boycott of the Jewish state

Dozens of teenage boys packed into juvenile detention centres

After seven French nationals have this week been sentenced to death

Forces tens of thousands to flee their homes

Some factories do not provide clean drinking water, deduct salaries of workers who fall sick, says report

After the kingdom denies three women activists had been tortured and sexually harassed in detention

Nearly 10,000 people have been killed since Saudi Arabia and its allies joined Yemen government's fight against...

More than dozen activists were arrested in May, just before the lifting of a decades-long ban on women drivers

Report ties low education rates for girls to broader gender inequality in the country

Pyongyang maintains that it protects and promotes 'genuine human rights'

Watchdogs say slain Saudi journalist's family is allowed to leave after a travel ban was lifted

Twenty-two million people in Yemen need aid, many of whom are at risk of famine

Yemen is in its worst humanitarian crisis with an estimated 10,000 people killed and millions at risk of starvation

Says the government does not need to be reminded of its obligations from outside

In several cases, judges have ordered forensic medical examinations and found signs of torture

Finds problems in definitions of transgender and intersex persons

The group said that Iran is one of only four countries known to have executed child offenders since 2013

PM Hailemariam gave no indication of how many prisoners would be affected by the declaration

It said that systematic torture was often ignored by judges and prosecutors whenever complaints were made

Temperatures in Qatar are currently in the high 30's Celsius and humidity levels are above 50 per cent

Refugee Rights Programme Director says customary international law prohibits returning Rohingya to Burma

At least 20 people including prominent clerics have been arrested by the Saudi authorities since September 9

HRW acknowledged that taken individually, the Chinese actions might not seem so serious

Armed groups have killed at least 45 civilians in apparent reprisal strikes over the past three months, report says

The draft was issued by the public security bureau on December 1 for public commentary

Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on torture, arrived in Turkey on Sunday and will speak with alleged victims

Saudi Arabia was recently re-elected to a new three-year term on the United Nations Human Rights Council

Poor people and marginalised groups are most at risk of being abused by the police, but it can be anybody

Three-judge bench takes up plea against Imdad Ali’s death warrants

Human Rights Watch quotes recent case of Sumbal who was attacked in Abbottabad

Use of colonial-era laws such as sedition and criminal defamation to clamp down on government critics

The Supreme Court upheld those verdicts, sparking renewed criticism for what many call a blatant travesty of justice

Detainees are forced to become informers, or join counter freedom-fighter organisations, claims report

Those targeted increasingly include opponents who accuse Najib and state-owned company (1MDB) of corruption

The watchdog says dozens of civilians were killed or wounded in at least seven such apparent attacks