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Border guards in Saudi Arabia fired machine guns and launched mortars at Ethiopians trying to cross into the kingdom from Yemen, likely killing hundreds of the unarmed migrants in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday.

Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the border from Yemen into the oil-rich kingdom, according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday. The report comes as Saudi Arabia implements an anti-migrant policy at home and a…

Lawyers have said Pakistan’s government is ‘unlikely’ to block a UK extradition request in connection to Sara Sharif’s death.

U.N. human rights officials are denouncing what they called the “extreme brutality” of gangs in Haiti as thousands flee several neighborhoods in the country’s capital this week amid a surge in violence

The Bharatiya Janata Party said that Pakistan’s decision to appoint Mushaal Hussein Mullick as a Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on human rights. was “an indication of a sabotage plan in Kashmir”. Ms. Mullick is the wife of jailed Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik.

Russian courts have ordered the liquidation of a human rights organization that preserved the legacy of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov and have ordered the detention of a prominent election monitor

Indigenous defenders opposing the Marlin mine were criminalised by a corporation and its state allies

The Swedish retailer, which said it would "phase out" operations in Myanmar, has about 42,000 employees in the country across several factories.

First discussion of isolated country’s human rights in six years draws anger from Russia and China.