human rights

BREAKING: Report says CIA misled Americans about methods and failed to secure vital intel to stop attacks.

On 2 December, it is the United Nations International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.

IBTimes UK looks at child marriage on International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2014.

100 inmates raided the prison infirmary and drank a lethal cocktail of pure alcohol mixed with drugs.

New human rights court is already a failure - and they haven't even created it yet.

North Korea compares US to Roman Empire which was 'buried in history'

Belgium police label Pakistani a terrorist after assuming his cricket bat was a weapon on public transport.

Former soldier tells the Guardian that cracks are appearing in Kim Jong-un's regime.

The controversial US naval base currently holds 149 terrorism suspects without charge

Saudi king's advisors make proposals to lift driving ban in secret closed session.

A training programme for Libyan troops was cut short amid sexual assault allegations

British-Iranian woman has not eaten in days as Amnesty International condemns 'appalling' case

Men jailed for three years each for appearance in video that authorities say 'incited debauchery'

Sunni militant group says women 'divided' among Islamist fighters according to Shariah law.

Oklahoma's refurbished death chamber aims to improve lethal injections following botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

Defendant pleads guilty to possessing 'bomb making' document.

Death metal band Cannibal Corpse are about to tour Russia - and Putin's reaction could create fresh turmoil.

IBTimes speaks to members of the Middle East's LGBT community to hear about the hardships they endure on a daily basis.

A Saudi man is seen tossing a newborn baby with vegetables in a cooking pot.

The female victim could barely open her eyes in the sunlight and banned from seeing her daughter.

Qatar confirms that it is holding two British employees of Global Network for Rights and Development.

Founder of 'Liberal Saudi Network' has sentence upheld, ordered to endure lashes outside mosque.

A British man and his Saudi wife physically assaulted by religious police outside a mall in Riyadh.

Average daily cost of the Iraq war, including the airstrikes, is around £4.5 million.

Pyongyang's foreign ministry pours scorns on US for its handling of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

Eight of the nineteen people were beheaded for non-violent offences including sorcery and drug smuggling.

MPs from both ruling and opposition parties convene to discuss tabling the anti-gay bill again in parliament.

US House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed resolution for China to end prisoner organ harvesting.

Law Wan-tung, 44, pleads not guilty to abusing Erwiana Sulistyaningsih in Hong Kong

The High Court ruling comes after Cait Reilly's Poundland case.