Indonesian human rights body blames tear gas for triggering soccer stampede
Indonesian police firing tear gas was the main trigger for a deadly soccer stampede at a stadium in East Java last month, according to the…
Indonesian police firing tear gas was the main trigger for a deadly soccer stampede at a stadium in East Java last month, according to the…
Prominent jailed Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has begun a full hunger strike ahead of the COP27 climate summit, as supporters say he will be…
Reforms have improved working and living conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers, ILO says in a new report. Qatar has made progress in its…
Washington says the Chinese territory’s once-vibrant media ‘has all but disappeared’ amid sweeping crackdown on dissent. The United States has slammed the fraud conviction of…
Human rights groups welcome two-year extension of UN mission, which Caracas condemns as ‘designed for interventionism’. The United Nations Human Rights Council has renewed the…
1/8 Detained Belarusian democracy activist Ales Bialiatski speaks after receiving the 2020 Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize…
Dangaremba, who was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2020, is a prominent critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. Prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi…
90-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong charged with improperly registering a support fund for those arrested in 2019 protests. A 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and five…
1/5 William Moseley can now be seen in the19th century horror film, "Raven's Hollow." Photo courtesy of Shudder NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The…
A lawyer for the family of Amadou Koume says the ruling was satisfying but the sentence was ‘relatively lenient’. A French court on Tuesday found…
In the late 1990s, several years after the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi community, the country’s new rulers – the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) – held…
The death of Queen Elizabeth II will accelerate the push by former UK colonies to ditch the British crown, experts and advocates have said, amid…
1/3 The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Tuesday against eight people who allegedly ran a human smuggling ring at the United States-Mexico border transporting migrants…
The Danish Commission for the Forgotten Women’s Struggle – a body set up by Denmark’s ruling Social Democratic Party – has recommended that the country’s…
From: Inside StoryUN report finds nine out of 10 countries have fallen behind on life expectancy, education and living standards. Thirty years of continuous human…
A new report from the United Nations argues that an unprecedented array of crises have set human progress back five years and fuelled a global wave…
UNDP says the Human Development Index has declined for two straight years for the first time in its history. Back-to-back global crises have set back…
Chicago says about 125 asylum seekers, many of them families with small children, arrived on board buses from Texas so far. A political battle over…
The prominent Modi critic was arrested by Gujarat police in June for allegedly coaching witnesses and forging documents in cases related to the riots. India’s…
Tegucigalpa, Honduras – After more than a decade of post-coup rule that made Honduras one of the most dangerous countries in the world for land defenders,…