'Resisting a repressive regime (3/3). Six years after the end of the pro-democracy movement that shook the country, judicial harassment continues to target those still seeking to promote freedom of ...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed deep concern over and slammed the proposed Punjab Control of Habitual Offenders and Anti-Social Behaviour Bill, warning that it ...

Excesses by the National Police Service have prompted action in the past. Repressive laws have been repealed and mechanisms ...

UN agency head warns of ‘major threat’ as global testing and treatment falls A funding crisis and increasing repression of human rights are making the resurgence of an HIV epidemic more likely, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Putin’s alleged secret sons, widely believed to be born from the Russian president’s long-rumored relationship with ...

April 22 (UPI) --Amnesty International said Venezuela has not dismantled its "repressive apparatus" nearly four months after former President Nicolás Maduro was arrested in a U.S. military operation.

March 12 (Reuters) - A United Nations fact-finding mission said on Thursday that Venezuela's "repressive state" remains fully operational following the removal of former President Nicolas Maduro by ...

Angolan President João Lourenço has signed into law new legislation that regulates the operation of nongovernmental organizations and other groups in the country. Civil society organizations, ...

Feb. 18 (UPI) --Human Rights Watch urged Venezuela's government led by Delcy Rodriguez to dismantle what it described as the country's repressive state apparatus and implement deep judicial and ...

A worrisome allegation of threats to life by Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, and a counter allegation by Felix Morka, a spokesman of the ruling All Progressives ...

The Associated Press has published the results of a wide-ranging investigation showing that the U.S. Border Patrol has built a nationwide dragnet driver-surveillance system that it uses to target ...

The past decade has seen a rise in school boards adopting policies that censor books, squelch anti-racist policies, limit student expression, and step on the rights of LGBTQ students. A new report by ...