HUMAN RIGHTS

Secessionist group is banned by the Congolese authorities.

Tanzanian girls face endemic issues of corporal punishment and sexual harassment by teachers say campaigners.

The island nation's 'abysmal' refugee policy has been slammed by human rights activists.

Kristeen Ferenczi, 16, and her 17-year-old girlfriend left the Bolton McDonald's in tears.

Country's media among the first casualties of violence that has rocked the country since 2015.

Move took place in Dialoubé, a jihadist base in the Mopti region in the centre of the country.

The rights watchdog says 600,000 Afghan refugees were forced to leave Pakistan in 2016.

Kenyan doctors in public hospitals have been on strike since 5 December.

Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda have resumed their armed struggle in region.

Queensland is expected to vote on a proposal to decriminalise abortion in March.

Allegations include mass killings and gang rapes of women and children in Rakhine state.

SOS Torture/Burundi claims the presidency controls both justice system and police, and crimes go unpunished.

Guantanamo Bay lawyer Clive Stafford Smith tells IBTimes UK that changes 'demeans America'

Traffickers rape women and children to 'pay' for bringing them to Europe, says Dunkirk Legal Support Team

More than 200 competing pro-life and pro-choice rallies took place across the US.

The developer who owns the property, rejected offers to turn the building into a Holocaust memorial.

The UN says that 17.1 million people struggle to eat in the war-torn country.

Between 12,000-14,000 Russian women are killed every year because of domestic abuse.

Jin Xing has celebrated a career as China's most-loved TV presenter and is openly transgender.

Scotland's First Minister said it was the UK's 'moral duty' to take on more unaccompanied child refugees.

The doctor is scared to leave the US to work in Iran, in case the travel ban is upheld.

Canadian agencies are taking up to 10 applications a day from refugees leaving the US

Wang Qi was an army surveyor, who accidentally crossed into India in 1963.

Women fear violence and abuse as they attempt to reach safety in Europe.

Some 2.7 million people in Kenya are affected by drought and face food insecurity, NGOs warn.

Germany already in talks over reparations for Herero and Namaqua massacres in former colony Namibia.

A court has questioned the imprisonment of the peaceful protester.

What you need to know about the Labour peer behind the Dubs Amendment.

Kenya High Court ruled to keep Dadaab refugee camp open as 260,000 Somali refugees would be at risk.