Pakistan faced sharp criticism at a UN Human Rights Council event over its alarming record of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial abu...

President Trump confirmed a second US military strike on a Venezuelan drug boat, resulting in three deaths and no US casualties. This actio...

Two Baloch civilians, Yasir and Musafir Baloch, were killed by state-backed death squads in Kech and Turbat, Balochistan. Rights groups con...

The Gauhati High Court issued notices to Assam authorities over alleged extra-judicial killings of three Hmar men by Cachar district police...

The two incidents - the killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi by the US, and the alleged plot to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun by Indian agents ...

Two United Nations rights experts called Monday for justice for a multitude of alleged crimes, including sexual torture, during Hamas's unp...

Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, convening his first televised cabinet session since taking office last week, described Raisi’s ascent as enable...

The court asked the Centre, state and petitioner to suggest names of officers who could be entrusted with the task of carrying out investig...

India's Ambassador to the UN Syed Akbaruddin responded strongly to the remarks made by Pakistan's envoy Maleeha Lodhi on Kashmir and Wani's...

In a statement, it said the state government must immediately and unconditionally release the 44-year-old activist and drop all charges aga...

In its ruling on July 8, the court said that all the allegations needed to be looked into, and offences committed by security forces could ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Manipur government how long the Army should be deployed in the state and enjoy unaccountable power.

Several international bodies, including the UN Special Rapporteurs on violence against women, have also called for the repeal of the law.

Hamas, which controls Gaza Strip, continued with its executions of "collaborators", killing four more Palestinians suspected of spying for ...

The Islamist faction declined to release the names or pictures of the executed for the sake of social stability, fearing backlash against t...

The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) said in a report released yesterday more than 1,000 people have been killed in Iraq in June so fa...

"This judgement by the SC reaffirms the value of human rights and respect for human life, as enshrined in the Indian Constitution," said Ch...