HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights activists say he was detained solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.

Isabelle Gerretsen Sep 18, 2017

The Commission on Human Rights is probing Duterte's bloody war on drugs.

Nandini Krishnamoorthy Sep 17, 2017

Ebenezer St John's Presbyterian Church in Australia said Facebook post had "practical consequences".

Josh Robbins Sep 14, 2017

Video appears to show soldiers beating men with batons and forcing them to drink dirty river water.

Ludovica Iaccino Sep 14, 2017

14-year-old Ona was caught up in protests when officers allegedly shot him four times.

Ludovica Iaccino Sep 14, 2017

Award-winning British photojournalist Dan Kitwood has spent several days in Bangladesh covering the Rohingya refugee crisis. His photos show the scale of the exodus as wave after wave of desperate people arrive by land, river and sea.

David Sim Sep 14, 2017

Burmese government accused of widespread abuses against Muslim minority forced to flee to Bangladesh.

David Otto Sep 13, 2017

Myanmar's de-facto leader is accused of turning a blind eye to widespread atrocities against the minority.

Ludovica Iaccino Sep 13, 2017

Critics see the measly budgetary allocation as a big blow to the Commission on Human Rights.

Nandini Krishnamoorthy Sep 13, 2017

Aung San Suu Kyi's government has been accused of targeting Rohingyas in "ethnic cleansing" operation.

Isabelle Gerretsen Sep 12, 2017

Public caning is widespread in Banda Aceh province, where people are tried under sharia law.

Ludovica Iaccino Sep 12, 2017

Security forces accused of excessive violence as Venezuela faces anti-government unrest.

Ludovica Iaccino Sep 11, 2017

Exclusion comes a month after Israeli government announced it would close organisation's bureau.

Isabelle Gerretsen Sep 08, 2017

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of possible ethnic cleansing and a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

David Sim Sep 06, 2017

India's Supreme Court ruled that the controversial divorce practice is unconstitutional on 22 August.

Zakia Soman Sep 06, 2017

"Ultimately, this is about basic decency" Obama wrote in a statement.

James Tennent Sep 05, 2017

The Rohingya are effectively stateless. Neither Bangladesh nor Myanmar recognises them as citizens. They live in apartheid-like conditions.

David Sim Sep 05, 2017

The victims are Muslim, and the persecutors are Buddhist - which doesn't neatly fit our Western world-view.

Daniel Hannan Sep 05, 2017

A BBC Panorama programme detailed a 'culture of abuse' at the site.

William Watkinson Sep 04, 2017

Almost 90,000 people have fled the country to Bangladesh after security forces torched entire villages.

Isabelle Gerretsen Sep 04, 2017

Among new arrivals, about 16,000 are school-age children and more than 5,000 are under the age of five, aid workers say.

David Sim Sep 04, 2017

The West's indifference to Iran's historic crimes lets my brother's killers get away with murder.

Massoumeh Raouf Aug 30, 2017

"Myanmar doesn't distinguish between the terrorists and civilians. They are hunting all the Rohingya."

David Sim Aug 29, 2017

Jess Phillips has criticised certain south Asian communities' attitudes towards the role of women.

Josh Robbins Aug 27, 2017

President Kadyrov claims children of divorced parents are more likely to join extremist groups.

Ludovica Iaccino Aug 25, 2017

Tensions running high in Rome as hundreds of refugees evicted from houses encamp in streets as 'they have nowhere to go'

Ludovica Iaccino Aug 25, 2017

Alisha Coleman, a former 911 operator, is suing her former employer with the help of ACLU.

Josh Robbins Aug 24, 2017

"I had never seen bananas."

Ludovica Iaccino Aug 23, 2017

Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Africa's second-longest-ruling leader, will hand power to the election winner, expected to be Joao Lourenco of MPLA.

David Sim Aug 23, 2017