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Officers claimed they feared being violently attacked, say reports, but campaigners accuse force of ‘trampling all over human rights’

Israel's occupation and discrimination against Palestinians are the main causes of the endless cycles of violence, UN investigators said Tuesday, prompting angry Israeli protests. A high-level team of investigators, appointed last year by the United Nations Human Rights Council to probe "all underlying root causes" in the decades-long conflict, pointed…

Militiamen killed 12 people in a night raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the shore of Lake Albert, a local human rights group said on Tuesday.

Human Rights Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick made the comments while appearing at the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

Human Rights Watch says 59 ethnic Rohingya left on a Thai island after a dangerous boat journey from Bangladesh should be given the opportunity to determine if they are refugees

Survivors fear documents may vanish when Philippine dictator’s son assumes office after election victory

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has spent just three days in Latin America since President Joe Biden assigned her 15 months ago to tackle migration issues in Central America — half as long as First Lady Jill Biden devoted during a single trip to the region last month.

Once again, the position regarding the Syrian state institutions, especially the army, thwarted the sessions of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva. A dispute had erupted between the government delegation headed by Ahmed al-Kuzbari and the opposition negotiating body headed by Hadi al-Bahra over institutional reform. In contrast to Damascus’ warnings…

If successful, the store in Towson, Maryland, would be the first to unionize at the US tech company