HUMAN RIGHTS

Corruption crackdown unleashes inhumane treatment of local party suspects, investigation finds

Thirty memorable photos of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

WikiLeaks founder says that the internet is a "state" and we must manage how it is governed

Dorian Nakamoto was claimed to be father of bitcoin by Newsweek report that he denied later.

China Labour Bulletin has tallied 1,171 strikes and protests between June 2011 and December 2013.

Hardline Islamist rebels are enforcing draconian regime with extreme violence.

Gesture has clear anti-Semitic meaning, say equality groups, and punishment meted out is not enough.

Bids begin at £1.8 million for this piece of military history.

Israeli company takes West Bank expertise to build observation towers along US-Mexico fence

Cairo deports female activists who planned to enter Gaza for International Women's Day

MPs' recommends will have only one tangible effect - to place prostitutes in danger.

Mugabe speaks out against homosexuality and Malawi urged to end child marriage

One of world's top aerial photographers gets London show for the first time.

IBTimes explores the issue of human trafficking and examines who is tackling the problem.

Facebook and WhatsApp have been hauled up before the FTC on privacy concerns

Sultan claims move to implement Sharia law 'not a backward or old-fashioned step' despite foreign criticism.

Muslim nation bans comic from being sold in the country for fear of disturbing 'public order'

Muslims are victims of ethnic-religious cleansing in western CAR and thousands flee war-torn country.

Video captures fast food restaurant pepper spray attack on Russian feminist punk collective

Four homosexuals face one year prison if human rights organisations do not pay fine

Israeli checkpoint soldiers end two teenagers' football careers with bullets

Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg has been selected to create a memorial to the 77 victims of Anders Behring Breivik.

Basic test said to verify rape claims described as unscientific, unreliable, insensitive and crude.

Best photos of the day: 4 March 2014.

Just 17% of 2014 Oscar nominees were women and 77% of the judging panel were men.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe backs Uganda's anti-gay act and dismissed notion that gay rights are human rights

More than 5,000 people are displaced following brutal attacks by Rapid Support Forces in South Darfur

Obama warns Benjamin Netanyahu that US cannot defend against international fallout of failed talks.

Walt Disney Company to stop funding Boy Scouts of America in 2015 over anti-gay policy banning homosexual adult leaders.