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United Nations experts called on Ankara to release the head of Turkey's medical association, who was arrested after she called for an investigation into allegations of chemical weapons used by the Turkish army.

Reclassifying modern slavery as immigration issue and rhetoric of ‘abusing the system’ are among concerns levelled at government

The country has been accused of 'sportswashing' by the first openly-gay Qatari man

BrewDog was publicly accused of fostering a “culture of fear” last year.

Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Türkiye of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast. Syria has recorded 81 deaths and more than 24,000 suspected cases of the extremely virulent disease since September, according to the World Health…

Detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s decision to escalate a hunger strike in prison to a refusal to drink water has raised the stakes and shone a spotlight on human rights violations as Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit. For his mother, the time has come for the world to…

The latest U.N. climate talks convened in Egypt as the nations of the world continue to fall short of their greenhouse gas reduction goals.

Channel crossings are wrongfully being ‘misrepresented as illegitimate’, a human rights advocate says

The move will raise awareness and cash for charities involved in fighting human rights in Qatar.