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Human Rights Watch says Lebanon’s electricity crisis has exacerbated poverty and inequality.

Human Rights Watch says many middle and working class families in Lebanon have been forced to spend most of their monthly income to pay shady neighborhood businessmen running private generators

From New York to Beijing, women have been demanding their rights on this day for more than a century. Much remains to be done, say activists, but there is reason for celebration

Court ruled the desk calendar contained pictures of yellow rubber ducks that mocked Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

A Thai man has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling calendars featuring satirical cartoons of yellow ducks that a court said mocked the country’s monarch

Parliamentarians urged to raise severe restrictions on political freedom when they gather in Manama from March 11.

Human Rights Watch urges Anthony Albanese to speak directly to Narendra Modi

Exclusive: letter from human rights groups says overturning of the constitutional right violates US’s obligations as a UN member state

Haiti’s former soccer federation president whose lifetime ban from sport over sexual abuse allegations was overturned last month has announced he is reclaiming his position

Human Rights Watch says Kais Saied’s government has taken away the independence of the judiciary.

Across India, measures targeting meat consumption have amplified since Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014, from the closure of meat shops to increasing the jail term for cow slaughtering. Hindu extremists are leading this wave of "vegetarian nationalism". Butchers in the state of Haryana, who are predominantly Muslim,…