Unidentified gunmen shot dead human rights activist Hidayat Lohar in Sindh region of Pakistan, media reports said.
Afghan women fear arrest, harassment and further punishment whenever a new Taliban decree is announced, according to a new multi-agency UN report issued on Friday based on an extensive su ...
Greece has become the first Christian Orthodox-majority nation to legalise same-sex marriage, media reports said on Friday.
The last two Afghan prisoners who had been in the U.S.-run Guantanamo prison for years were set free and returned to Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Monday, the state-run Bakhtar news ...
As severe hunger ripples across northern Ethiopia, the World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up efforts to deliver lifesaving assistance to three million people in the coming weeks to ave ...
Chinese Police recently raided a gathering of Christian villagers and arrested at least 200 people for allegedly joining a church that refused to abide by a theological doctrine promoted ...
Nearly 100 people have died or disappeared crossing the Central and Eastern Mediterranean so far this year – more than twice the number for the same period in 2023, the deadliest ye ...
The UN human rights chief has expressed deep regret over the execution of a prisoner in the United States on Thursday night through the country’s first-ever use of nitrogen asphyxia ...
Nine people were killed and 75 injured on Wednesday in a direct hit on a training centre turned shelter in southern Gaza run by UNRWA, the UN agency that assists Palestinians, according t ...
- UN migration agency says 60 per cent of migrant deaths were linked to drowning in 2023
- Human traffickers torture immigrants who attempted to reach Europe via Iran
- UN expert urges global action to halt ongoing Myanmar junta atrocities
- UN rights chief says rushing to adopt new security law in Hong Kong is a 'regressive step'
- UN calls for united action to fight rising trend of Islamophobia
