human rights

Shawn Sullivan, 43, is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl and sexually molesting two 11-year-old girls in Minnesota between 1993 and 1994.

Assad says Syria is at war as fighting reaches outskirts of capital Damascus.

UN expert tasked with investigating human rights violations in Syria finally enters the country.

Lou Nuer and Murle tribal groups engaged in tit-for-tat theft, arson, looting and kidnapping, says UN.

Viral video shows men abducting women off the street and forcing them into matrimony as ancient tradition lives on.

With an historic move, the Gulf Kingdom is poised to send for the first time women athletes to London 2012 Olympic Games.

Journalists and bloggers covering the snowballing protests against price rise are at the receiving end of the regime's security officials.

Aung San Suu Kyi's warm welcome in the UK after years of painful separation was a missed opportunity.

25 villagers kidnapped from Daret Azzeh, slaughtered and mutilated, claims official broadcaster.

Temporary truce clears way for evacuation of trapped and wounded from embattled city.

Celebrity supporters who stood bail for WikiLeaks founder may lose their money after he sought asylum in Ecuadorian embassy.

Schoolboy claims he was picked up by Bahrain security forces while playing in street with friend and forced into confession.

Police say that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest for breaching bail conditions while seeking political asylum.

UN investigator wants probe into civilian casualties in growing number of drone attacks.

Ecuadorian government analysing Julian Assange's plea for political asylum in London embassy.

Main armed resistance force says join us and we will protect you in future democratic Syria.

Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent 15 years of the last 24 years under house arrest in Myanmar, returns to hero's welcome in UK.

Palestinian football star wins freedom in exchange for ending three-month hunger strike.

Two surviving defendants have seven days to appeal against sentence for crime that sparked wave of sectarian violence in Rakhine state.

Saudi Kingdom is planning to buy 300 to 600 'Leopard 2' battle tanks from Germany.

Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize means personally extending my concerns for democracy and human rights beyond national borders, said Suu Kyi in her speech.

Birmingham woman in jail with her two young children awaiting trial for allegedly carrying 63kg of heroin through Islamabad airport.

EU's European Council targets regime with ban on export of luxury and 'dual-use' items to Syria.

Pictures including women and children being slaughtered during the more-than-a-year-long bloodshed.

More than 20 dead and 30,000 villagers displaced as ethnic violence erupts across western coastal region.

Syrian forces use sexual violence as terror tactic weapon against jailed protesters, Human Right Watch says.

Amnesty International accuses UN Security Council of dithering while Syrian regime acts with impunity against its own people and human rights crisis unfolds.

Judges dismiss bid by Julian Assange to reopen extradition case, ending his last legal recourse in Britain.

Bahrain court sentences nine medics for role in pro-democracy protests, while acquitting nine others.

For many, the image of a footballer is not the same than that of any person they know or know of, with sportsmen often taking a much more emotionless, hero-like picture in fans' minds as they play week in and out and enjoy pleasures in life that the majority of the population won't ever experience.