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Sixteen rights groups on Monday urged the Iran-backed Houthi militias to end their siege of Yemen’s third-largest city. The groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, said in a joint statement the Houthi blockade of Taiz has severely restricted freedom of movement and impeded the flow of essential goods,…

Peiter Zatko’s allegations raise questions about big tech’s responsibility towards users in authoritarian countries.

New York (AFP) - After three decades at the helm of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth has come to believe that governments are "always tempted" to violate citizens' rights.

Singapore's LGBT community welcomes a decision to repeal a colonial-era law criminalising sex between men, with some declaring it is "a step forward" but "a step forward a little late".

Yangon (AFP) - After his mother begged him to stay, Maung Soe Naing decided not to join his fellow Rohingya fleeing into Bangladesh to escape a brutal crackdown by Myanmar's military five years ago.

While 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after 25 August 2017, 600,000 remain, facing harsh restrictions on movement, persecution and poverty

Gov’t policies restricting construction and renovation of churches pose major health and safety issues, advocates say.

Afghanistan has been suffering through a grave humanitarian crisis since the Taliban took control on August 15, 2021. According to the UN, 95 percent of Afghans are going hungry. It’s a catastrophe that worsened after the fall of Kabul one year ago, exacerbated by the US decision to freeze the…

Three years ago on 5 August, Prime Minister Narender Modi’s government scrapped the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir abrogating Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which had allowed the region limited autonomy.

Late last month, a high school teacher in the Indonesian province of Yogyakarta reportedly forced a female Muslim student to wear the hijab – veils worn by Muslim women – causing her to become anxious and depressed.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the second leg of his three-nation African tour that began in South Africa at the weekend, and is due to wrap in Rwanda.