Police carried out a dawn raid on the widely watched, independent news channel Halk TV on October 14, signaling its takeover by a government-appointed administrator who promptly ordered the station to ...

From the World Bank's annual meetings in Bangkok through October 18 to the following week’s Global AI and Digital Summit in Seoul, the Bank is promoting AI’s potential to deliver “more and better jobs ...

During its October 6 review by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), ...

Images from ongoing student protests in France of heavily armed riot police using tear gas, stun grenades, batons, rubber ...

The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release three activists associated with the overseas Viet Tan organization who ...

Senegal’s growing crackdown on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people is violating their rights, causing ...

A United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on October 7 calling for concrete action against systemic racism should have ...

A Saudi court has sentenced a Sri Lankan migrant worker to death over a Facebook comment that was deemed blasphemous.

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Uganda to significantly expand government support for ...

A lawyer in Niger faces prosecution over comments about the army on social media while a prominent journalist and critic of ...

Burundi is set to win re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote on October 12, 2026, with no competition.

Bahraini authorities have rearrested at least nine men who had previously been released from prison by royal pardon.