The law pertaining to the National Human Rights Commission needs amendments to give the watchdog more investigative powers, speakers said at an event yesterday.

Rights advocates had said the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, were “at real risk” of torture, imprisonment or even death if they were returned.

The Red Cross and Hamas engaged in an exchange on Thursday, in which four dead hostages were exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

China has assured Thailand that 40 Chinese Uyghurs it returned on Thursday would be looked after, Thailand's defence minister ...

Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to ...

Human rights groups warned that the Uyghurs, who were held in Bangkok for more than a decade, will face mistreatment from ...

China confirmed Thailand deported 40 Chinese nationals on Thursday, despite human rights organizations and members of the U.S ...

A panel of United Nations experts on Wednesday warned that the Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks ...

The UN rights chief on Wednesday rejected as "unlawful" proposals for the annexation of or forced transfer from Palestinian ...

Dozens of dignitaries walked out of Russia's speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday in support of ...

The attacks in southern Syria are part of a new policy aimed at protecting what Israel calls its “security zone” in the ...

Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ...