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The mission was set up by the UN Human Rights Council to look at ‘the deteriorating situation of human rights in Iran’.

The back-and-forth matchup between No. 7 Gauff and Sofia Kenin was a highlight during the first round of the women’s tournament.

Amnesty International has reported that security forces, separatist rebels and ethnic militiamen – from both sides of the country's linguistic divide – have committed "atrocities" in the English-speaking regions of western Cameroon, including executions, torture and rape.

THE bank account of a women’s rights and equalities campaigner has been shut by the Royal Bank of Scotland without explanation, her family has…

In this edition: Human rights investigators from Amnesty International warn that civilians in Cameroon are suffering sexual, physical and psychological violence as they're targeted by all the main players in an Anglophone separatist crisis that's gripped the country since 2016. Also, Senegal's future looks immediately more stable after President Macky…

On the morning of July 4, Elena Milashina, a journalist with the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and Alexandre Nemov, a lawyer, were beaten on their way to a trial in Grozny, Chechnya. Images document the extreme violence of the attack. According to the Crew Against Torture, a Russian human…

The Supreme Court decided to examine a plea accusing a “lethargic” Union government of not filling up vacancies in the National Human Rights Commission

Masked assailants blocked their vehicle with cars before beating them with clubs

Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov were on their way to the sentencing of a human rights activist in Grozny when they were assaulted

Climate change threatens to deliver a "truly terrifying" dystopian future of hunger and suffering, the United Nations' human rights chief warned Monday.

Senior adviser to King of Morocco and renowned Canadian law professor recognized for combating global antisemitism.