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It comes while scheme to deport asylum seekers to central African country has been put on hold

Houthis turning a government institution for printing school textbooks into a black market has spurred widespread anger among human rights activists, teachers and parents in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas run by the group. A few days ago, the Houthis’ self-proclaimed Ministry of Education turned the book printing…

Publication of Foreign Office annual report on global rights was due before parliamentary summer recess

Mexican officials on Thursday called the 2014 disappearance of 43 students a state crime that was covered up by the government, in another damning assessment of the previous administration's actions regarding one of Mexico's worst human rights atrocities.

MEXICO CITY - This year will be the deadliest on record for journalists in Mexico, with 18 killed so far, human rights organization Article 19 said in a report Thursday.

Advocates are urging Canada to do more to hold Canadian companies accountable for human rights violations abroad.

The British-Somali fighter will take part in the first women’s bout in the country on the undercard of the Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua bill

When the number of gang-involved massacres in Haiti stood at five a few years ago, the head of a leading human rights group warned U.S. lawmakers about the Caribbean nation’s exploding crises of gang violence and firearms trafficking.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in Nablus and shut down the offices of seven civil society organisations.

As mass shootings continue in the US, does Mexico’s lawsuit against gun corporations have a chance?

Judge rejects attempts by Foreign Office to redact material on alleged abuses that was already public