The US is imposing sanctions against a senior UN official focused on the human rights of Palestinians, US Secretary of State ...

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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled Russia responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed ...

The Taliban were left "horrified" after a 45-year-old man married a six-year-old girl in a sickening ceremony in Afghanistan, ...

Italian lawyer Francesca Albanese serves as special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, one ...

A defector from North Korea is suing Kim Jong Un over claims of abuse that she faced while detained in the dictatorship under ...

A fuel shortage threatens to plunge doctors and patients at Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza, into darkness, doctors ...

HuffPost first reported the planned move against Francesca Albanese that comes amid a Washington visit by Israeli Prime ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it “adopts all necessary measures” to ensure the health of the suspects in its detention center, but declines to comment on the reported “skin and bones ...

Amiri, a 50-year-old woman from Uruzgan, told The Afghan Times she married her 14-year-old daughter to a 27-year-old man for ...