A care facility in Kanchanaburi, Thailand made headlines in early October when photos of conditions in the facility went ...

Cambodia’s Supreme Court on October 14 denied opposition activist Voeung Samnang’s request to serve his two sentences ...

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

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

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 ...

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

It has been 30 years since Rwanda-backed rebel forces attacked Lemera hospital in what was then eastern Zaire, killing 37 ...

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

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 ...

Every October, Japan celebrates Sports Day, a public holiday established to commemorate the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and Japan's longstanding commitment to sport as a national priority.

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