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As COP27 takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, activists face greater repression as a spotlight shines on their plight.

In a fenced-off area guarded by police on the fringe of the global climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, around 30 Egyptian youths stood in a neat line holding up placards and chanting "Save our Planet".

Here’s a look at some of the most important events of the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northernmost region.

The organisation and Human Rights Watch petition in South Africa to take part in class action as the mining giant denies liability

Members of Three Lions Pride have decided not to travel to the World Cup

Members of England LGBTQ+ fans’ group have decided not to travel to the World Cup.

Berlin (AFP) - A Qatari World Cup ambassador called homosexuality a "damage in the mind" in a German TV interview, sparking criticism in Europe and the United States Tuesday just 12 days before the tournament kicks off.

Egyptian authorities have unveiled a COP27 application to "help" participants at the climate change summit in Sharm El Skeikh, which ends on November 18. But NGOs and cybersecurity experts warn that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime can very easily and effectively use the app to surveil attendees, including top diplomats…

The Western Australian government has ignored two decades’ of warnings about Roebourne prison, ‘a corral of human misery’.

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

Beirut (AFP) - Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Turkey of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast.