human rights

Burmese officials and local Buddhists encouraged and participated in violence against Muslim minority

Sandiford will be executed in Indonesia if she cannot raise £8,000 for her Supreme Court appeal.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev have Chechen connections, but are they relevant to the bombing?

In Nea Manolada migrant workers were protesting over six month unpaid wages. Two men taken into custody.

Tracy Cameron asks Dubai judge to reprieve her son almost a year after he was arrested for drug offences.

Police clashes again with pro-democracy protesters ahead of controversial race

Campaigner whose 15-year-old son Kevin was killed in 1989 tragedy dies from cancer.

4,000 officers preparing for huge protests along Whitehall-St Paul's funeral route.

Reports of earthquake devastation continue as Pakistan reports 21 people dead including children.

Calls for boycott of F1 grand prix as police raid secondary school following pro-democracy protests.

February 14 movement claims responsibility for blast that left no casualties.

Price has accused HMP Frankland of anti-Semitism for not providing him with pots and pans to cook with.

A pregnant woman's throat was slit and her belly cut open in yet another incidence of a series of 'honour killing' crimes in Jordan.

British-based Sikhs joined in the celebrations by hosting mass parades across the UK.

Moscow bans American officials in response to Washington's 'Magnitsky List.'

Kremlin warns against naming suspects in Sergei Magnitsky’s death and draws up own list of alleged American human rights abusers.

Palestinian majority believes in national reconciliation between staunch rivals Hamas and Fatah.

25 international organisations write open letter to Obama reminding him of promise to close detention centre.

More than 50 activists arrested in crackdown on pro-democracy opposition ahead of race

New report claims government planes have carried out 59 unlawful attacks during two-year civil war.

Kurdish political prisoner Meral Kurum was sentenced without evidence and shares her cell with her three-year-old son, says Uzay Bulut.

Inspired by Arab revolutions, grassroots movement may change history in secretive Africa country.

Five radical feminist activists staged topless protest against Russian president in Germany

Ministry confirms Ali al-Khawahir's spinal cord will not be severed but do not detail punishment.

Amnesty highlights growing racket of Bedouin Rashaida tribe involved in people-smuggling from Eritrean refugee camps in Sudan.

SS-Death's Head (Totenkopf) division camp guards Hans Lipschis and Theodor Szehinskyj have been included in the related top 10 of most wanted Nazis.

Burma Campaign UK criticises President Thein Sein for oppressive policies against minority Muslims.

Bougainville island police ‘helpless’ to stop murder of elderly women accused of being witches.

New advice states bosses are compelled to respect the beliefs of vegan, druid and Zoroastrian employees.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office says severing prisoner's spinal cord is a 'grotesque' act.