More than 40 freight routes now connect Europe to the region, where Beijing is accused of subjecting the Uyghur ethnic group ...

New video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during ...

Tanzanian authorities have put opposition leader Tundu Lissu on trial for treason, a charge that carries the death penalty — but it is not the first time that the country’s apparatus of repression has ...

In a recent decision denying asylum to a Salvadoran woman being stalked by gang members, the Board of Immigration Appeals — ...

Sharif, 28, drew millions of followers on social media and emerged as one of the top voices in the Arab world for his ...

New video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during ...

In news from the West Bank, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has published footage of an Israeli settler fatally ...

The organisation urged legal action against those involved in the incident, adequate compensation and protection for the victims’ families, and strict accountability for any group or individual ...

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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, who now works with human rights group The Elders, about her upcoming visit to Egypt's border with Gaza.

The Board of Immigration Appeals denied a Salvadoran woman asylum, ruling that her claim that Salvadoran women constitute a ...

The U.S. has been waffling for decades over whether women have a right to refugee protection when fleeing gender-based ...