BANGKOK - In an uneven year for democracy and rights globally the Asia-Pacific region saw some encouraging signs Human Rights ...

An officer's arrest for the alleged rape of a remandee in custody raises serious questions about the integrity of the justice ...

We, the undersigned organisations, welcome the recent decision by a Saudi court to reduce the jail sentence of Saudi prisoner of conscience Salma al-Shehab from 27 years to four years, with an ...

Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal pillars at the African Art Museum pay tribute to victims of violence and the perils of migration.

The Molopo Sexual Offences Regional Court in North West has sentenced serial rapist Fezile Zozi to three life sentences after ...

Maj-Gen Asmah was UNDOF's Deputy Force Commander from 2021 to 2023 and Acting Force Commander for a brief period ...

Nahid Taghavi, an Iranian-German women's rights activist, has been released from prison and is back in Germany after more than four years incarceration in Iran, Amnesty International said on Monday.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed how his refusal to keep mute on issues of national and international ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that his inability to keep his mouth shut on national and international issues led him to jail under the military junta of the late Head of State, ...

Obasanjo also hinted that the quest to save Nigeria from an imminent disintegration made him to seek the Presidency in 1999 ...

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has urged African Youths to embrace positive leadership in effort to end bad government.

When I entered the adult prison system in the early 2000s, there were a little more than 163,000 people incarcerated in ...