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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has found Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, guilty of war crimes.

A politically engaged Chinese journalist has disappeared on his way to Hong Kong. His friends believe authorities abducted him due to an open letter he wrote that demanded President Xi Jinping resign.

Last week, the United States and 11 other countries hammered China on its appalling human rights record at the United Nations, particularly the current crackdown on dissidents and human-rights activists. China struck back on Monday, accusing the U.S. of hypocrisy and lambasting American society for rape, murder, racism, and plunder.

Data from the state of Jharkhand, India, shows a total of more than 127 woman lynched by angry crowds after being accused of witchcraft between 2012 and 2014.

An Indian family hacked to death a 22-year-old man after he married their higher caste daughter.

The Iranian government has released 152 people arrested in connection with a mob attack on the Saudi Arabian Embassy in January.

Saudi Arabia has executed its 70th prisoner this year, almost half the number from 2015, after a court convicted Alaa al-Zahrani of murder for throwing a rock to the head of Abdullah al-Sumairi.

Brothers in India burned their sister alive after she married a man in a different caste (social class) in the nation’s most recent honor killing.

Police in Istanbul, Turkey, arrested a woman and fired rubber bullets into a crowd attempting to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Secretary of State John Kerry will not travel to Cuba ahead of President Barack Obama’s trip to the island on March 21, according to State Department officials. Various reports cite logistical issues at the nascent American embassy in Havana and human rights disputes between the two governments as the reasons.

Witness Meu Peou told a court during an ongoing genocide hearing in Cambodia about a woman the Khmer Rouge executed and ate in front of him.

German doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, treating Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), tells the Agence France-Presse he has treated an 8-year-old girl who set herself on fire to stop jihadists from raping her.

Turkey’s Women’s Library and Information Center Foundation plans to celebrate their 25th anniversary by preserving their priceless collection digitally. Organizers say the promotion of women’s arts is pivotal in a country with an alarming, and growing, problem of violence against women.

Secretary of State John Kerry told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee he plans to travel to Cuba in the “next week or two” to discuss human rights.

A Turkish man has sued his wife for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Cuba’s communist propaganda newspaper Granma has published an article claiming that President Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to Havana in March “disproves” decades of evidence that the Cuban government violates the human rights of its citizens, on a weekend in which Cuban state police arrested almost 200 dissidents for peaceful marches against communism.

President Barack Obama has announced a visit to Cuba next month. The Cuban regime has not improved its human rights record, nor has it made any democratic reforms.

President Barack Obama confirmed on Twitter Thursday morning that he will visit the rogue communist dictatorship of Cuba in March, more than a year after implementing a series of concessions to the Raúl Castro regime that has enabled it to further oppress political dissent and create a refugee crisis in the Western Hemisphere.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has released a report concluding that Russian airstrikes have killed more Syrian civilians than the Syrian forces or the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in January.

Ethical vegans are looking to take advantage of new legal guidelines regarding the definition of the word ‘creed’ to make their lifestyle choice a protected human right. According to recent guidance from the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), a creed is not

The intervention of the most senior family judge in England and Wales has seen legal aid granted to a convicted paedophile — previously found guilty of abusing two boys — to fund a custody battle over his eight-year-old son. The convicted paedophile, known at

The Iranian regime’s growing disdain for human rights were the subject of large protests in Paris this week that coincided with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s arrival there.

The traditional pre-school paper round is under threat from a European human rights watchdog which claims it may breach a European treaty on social rights. The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) — part of the Council of Europe, the body overseeing the European Social Charter —

A South African mayor defended his decision to award scholarship based on virginity as a way to reduce AIDs and unwanted pregnancies.

Peter Salama, regional director of UNICEF in the Middle East, is reporting Syrian children continue to be forced to fight in the nation’s civil war, dying in classrooms.

Cuban anti-communist dissidents have denounced communist agents – many, they say, Cuban soldiers disguised as civilians – for attacking the headquarters of the Ladies in White group, setting a fire in front of the building, and burning copies of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“The Turkish government’s onslaught on Kurdish towns and neighborhoods, which includes round-the-clock curfews and cuts to services, is putting the lives of up to 200,000 people at risk and amounts to collective punishment,” Amnesty International said this week about the clash between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), particularly its militant youth wing, the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H).

Four rich Pakistani Muslim men allegedly killed a Christian girl after she shrugged off their sexual advances.

A court in Turkey has sentenced Filiz Akinci to 11 months and 20 days in prison over an obscene hand gesture she allegedly made two years ago towards then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, now president.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)’s latest issue of Dabiq does not disregard its female readers, publishing a piece with advice for widows of jihadists. Various female jihadists write the article for the section “To Our Sisters.” The author of this issue provides the article with a more tame voice than previous issues.

Taliban members in Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a university in the northern region.

An Afghan man fled to seek the support of the Taliban after he chopped off his wife’s nose in northern Faryab province.

Jailed former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has refused an opportunity to travel to the United Kingdom for back surgery after the government insisted on taking one of his relatives as a “hostage” to make sure he returned.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has demanded an investigation into reports from the African nation of Burundi of the discovery of mass graves with hundreds of bodies and soldiers gang-raping women.

The Iranian community in Los Angeles had very mixed reactions to the lifting of sanctions against Iran, known as Implementation Day, which was initiated on January 16.

The Obama administration announced on Thursday that Iran had not violated the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. But it is wrong, as the text of the Convention makes clear.