The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference has become for the environment what the Olympics and FIFA World Cup are to sports and Eurovision ... the focus to the regime’s abysmal record on ...

If it’s not racism, what is it?” Why doesn’t the Australian government condemn a brutal guerilla war in Indonesia and offer ...

Human Rights Watch’s Statement to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute Committee on Budget and Finance ...

Human rights advocates are calling for an independent investigation into the deadly explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies ...

The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly ...

Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She has researched human rights in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New ...

Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

Islamist insurgents in Burkina Faso have stepped up attacks on civilians, carrying out door-to-door killings, slitting ...

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Groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL accused of ‘massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshippers’.

Jihadist groups in Burkina Faso have escalated attacks on civilians, often in retaliation against communities for refusing to ...

The NGO urges governments to improve protection schemes, grant legal status and reverse "onerous visa requirements" for ...