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Security forces in Qatar have allegedly subjected lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment, according to a report by Human Rights Watch

The veteran human rights campaigner has since been released

Veteran human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was told to move on after holding a one-man protest against Qatar's criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people outside the country's national museum in Doha

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) published a new report that underlined that the Israeli authorities’ restrictions on travel of Gaza Strip patients have caused the death of seven patients and obstructed the travel of 5,000 to receive treatment. The report underscores that from 2008 to 2021, the Israeli…

By every conceivable measure, South Sudan is a nation in crisis. Though a peace agreement was signed in 2018, it is yet to be implemented. While visiting the country this month, the U.N. Commissioner on Human Rights in South Sudan warned that every passing day of inaction means not just…

Qatar has been hit by an "unprecedented campaign" of criticism over preparations for the football World Cup, its ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani said Tuesday, slamming international scrutiny of the Gulf state's human rights record.

A Uyghur organization and a human rights group are taking the U.K. government to court to challenge Britain’s failure to block the import of cotton products associated with forced labor and other abuses in China’s far western Xinjiang region

Biden's order and other steps announced Monday are perhaps the most aggressive attempt by the U.S. to hold the Ortega accountable for his continued attacks on human rights and democracy.

The Labour leader also said that none of his colleagues will be in attendance for this year's tournament in the Middle Eastern country - where being gay is illegal.