El Salvador’s Supreme Court has struck down an amnesty law from 1993 that has protected soldiers, paramilitary groups and guerrilla…
Women are routinely subjected to sexual abuse and torture in order to obtain confessions during arrest and first interrogation, according…
Kenya announced that closing the world’s largest refugee camp is the best way to deal with the nearly half a…
Just days after a young man died from self-immolation, another refugee at Australia’s Nauru detention center set herself on fire.…
The United Nations has told Qatar that it has one year to root out and end the practices that enslave…
The annual report by human rights group Amnesty International paints a bleak picture of global human rights in the past…
More than 218,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe last month – roughly the same number of people crossing in all…
“My name is Mark Collins and I want the world to know we exist.” Speaking from a secret safe house…
Dealing with the Boko Haram militants sits near the top of the priority list of the new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. And…
New evidence shows the scale of a recent attack by a Nigerian Islamist group. Boko Haram, known internationally for kidnapping…