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Decision likely to be delayed several weeks, while charities say UK government is facilitating ‘decimation of Gaza’

Sexual and gender-based violence so severe they led to death, says rights group.

A global human rights group says Hamas-led armed groups committed numerous war crimes during the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that precipitated the war in Gaza

Human Rights Watch says ill-treatment of some minors arbitrarily held in gang crackdown amounts to torture

Every year, thousands of U.S. residents are deported for drug-related activity, including minor offenses and conduct that states have legalized.

Legal aid organization Foro Penal reported that there have been around 15,700 politically motivated arbitrary arrests in Venezuela during the past decade

Human Rights Watch found links to 190 photos of kids that were scraped off internet without families’ consent

Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the "narco-state" that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts told AFP. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of…

170 photos of Brazilian children have been scraped without parental consent, Human Rights Watch said.