human rights

The United Nations World Day of Social Justice is observed on 20 February 2015.

House of Lords' Make or Break: The UK's Digital Future report states internet is as important to modern-day life as water, gas or electricity.

Mothers arrested for making their young daughters to fight as part of ancient traditions

New Human Rights Watch report says governments facing crisis ignore human rights

Exclusive: The activist tells IBTimes UK the government should invest more in renewable energy.

New Russian regulation denying transgender people the right to drive has drawn condemnation from human rights activists and LGBT community.

Iranian rights group set to release separate report on human rights violations by British government.

Defector Kim Kwang-il's hellish version of life as prisoner of Kim Jong-un.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) installed a giant container in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Tuesday (December 16) as they published their report on press freedom in the world, which says 66 journalists have been killed while reporting since the beginning of 2014.The report says 119 journalists were kidnapped this year, which is 35 percent up from last year and 40 journalists are being held hostage.Large banners with RSF's findings stood in front of the Eiffel Tower and one poster carried names of slain and kidnapped journalists across the world, including that of American journalist James Foley who was beheaded by Islamic State militants in August.

IBTimes UK looks at the struggles of Syrian female refugees on United Nations' Human Rights Day

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.