China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, responding to queries at a televised event on the...
A woman, who is forced to leave her matrimonial home, can file a case against her estranged husband and in-laws at the place where she resides...
New York: Saying she was proud of “our country’s history of giving shelter to the most vulnerable people”, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has said in an...
Cairo: The ceasefire that came into effect in Syria at midnight has been upheld in most of the country, a British war monitor told EFE on...
Manila: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte called the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who this week called for an investigation into the killings the leader admitted...
New York: The Sri Lankan government that took office a year ago ended the pervasive culture of surveillance and censorship and embarked on reforms aimed at...
Damascus: A most-wanted commander of the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has been killed in an air strike on Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, activists and the Nusra...
United Nations: Amid thawing relations, US President Barack Obama held talks with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro at the UN, the first meeting between the two on...
Pyongyang: North Korea on Thursday slammed the establishment of a UN human rights office in South Korea, which will monitor Pyongyang’s human rights performance. The Committee for...
New York: Sri Lanka’s promotion of a senior officer whose division was implicated in serious human rights abuses casts doubt on government pledges to credibly investigate...
