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Human Rights Watch says Kais Saied’s government has taken away the independence of the judiciary.

Across India, measures targeting meat consumption have amplified since Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014, from the closure of meat shops to increasing the jail term for cow slaughtering. Hindu extremists are leading this wave of "vegetarian nationalism". Butchers in the state of Haryana, who are predominantly Muslim,…

Bulgarian Health Minister Assen Medzhidiev said most of the survivors were in very bad condition: "They have suffered from lack of oxygen, their clothes are wet, they are freezing, and obviously haven't eaten for days"

Uyghur advocacy groups called on United Nations bodies to take action against China on Thursday over its abuses against the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, after U.N. experts this week reviewed Beijing's rights record.

This 29-year-old spearheaded a protest movement that toppled Sri Lanka's government. But after his triumphant moment, Wasantha was taken into a feared detention system where prisoners have been tortured and killed.

A first-of-its-kind report looks "beyond the criminalization of same-sex conduct"

A human rights group says Britain and the United States committed crimes against humanity when they forced the people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to leave their homes five decades ago to make way for a U.S. Navy base

Chagossians have spent decades fighting to return to the islands after being forced to leave in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a military base.

Human Rights Watch also demands trial for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of expulsion – and continuing ill treatment – of Chagossians