human rights

Gay rights group Outrage dismisses former boxer's views as marginal.

Controversy has dogged Mexico's boy matador but he has fulfilled his dream in week before 15th birthday.

MP unfurls flag of 1967-74 military junta and another threatens to kill anti-fascist protesters.

10 children die in Syrian village of Deir al-Asafir in attack by Assad forces' MiG fighter.

PM Dmitry Medvedev says supply of weapons to Assad is lawful but that Russia is neutral in conflict.

University Hospital Galway doctors refusal to grant abortion to woman in severe pain prompts third investigation.

Suspected Illegal Immigrants detained in Komotini stage revolt in which 16 people wounded.

President Mohammed Mursi says new powers will enable him to root out 'weevils' from old regime.

Government claims to have 'secret information' on ban, imposed following torture of Serdar Mohammed at Afghan hands.

Suu Kyi criticises governments for using the name adopted by country's military junta in 1989.

Islamic Human Rights Commission reiterates claims by British ambassador in Bahrain that Scotland Yard putting pressure on opposition figures.

Human Rights Watch report Losing Humanity calls for ban of autonomous military weapons systems.

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling gives option to keep blanket ban despite the ECRH declaring it illegal

Lord Chief Justice says whole life tariff does not breach human rights but downgrades three sentences in review.

Two activists dead after their detention in Beijing ahead of 18th Communist Party Congress.

US president says there is 'no excuse' for violence against stateless Rohingya Muslims.

Barack Obama praises reforms in Burma and urges nation to continue process.

Human rights champion and leader of Burma's National league for Democracy has finally spoken out on the dramatic conflict between Buddhist and Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar

Christian demoted from work and forced to take 40 percent salary cut after posting gay marriage was “an equality too far”.

Barber says his religion prohibits him from touching women other than his family members.

Reports of female genital mutilation in western media are "hyperbolic" and "one sided", unfoundedly portraying the practice as "savage and horrifying", a report has said.

Jawad and Jalal Fairooz tell IBTimes UK of their shock at discovering their citizenship had been revoked by Bahrain government.

Savita Halappanavar, who was 17-weeks pregnant, arrived at the University Hospital Galway on 21 October complaining of back pain. She was then found to be miscarrying and died of septicaemia a week later.

Lamaa’s mother is calling for the execution of TV personality Faihan al Gameri for the murder of their daughter.

Greece's infamous neo-Nazi party set up a branch in Italian city of Trieste.

Parliamentary speaker Rebecca Kadaga says bill will become law by end of 2012, but Kikonyogo Kivumbi says it is merely a 'political weapon'.

Ramirez, 21, shot by police during clashes between authorities and students protesting against tax reform.

China has taken the extraordinary step of blocking access to Google.com and numerous other Google services.

Presenter widely condemned for handing list of alleged paedophiles to David Cameron after three minutes of research.

Human rights expert Sarah Cook says the Communist Party's latest clampdown on dissent could have a ripple effect which lasts for years.