China tightens travel restrictions for citizens

China has imposed a range of sweeping new rules restricting travel in and out of the country in a move that observers say will give the government even more control over its citizens.

Hundreds of asylum seekers removed from UK to France have disappeared, say NGOs

Rights groups say those missing after being deported under one in, one out deal include dozens of age-disputed children.

‘War on terror’: How 9/11 changed the language of conflict

The events of September 11, 2001 spawned a new lexicon which effectively sanitised the erosion of human rights.

‘Not forgotten, but ignored’: campaigners take Sudan’s war back to the Human Rights Council

Human rights organizations used the opening week of the UN Human Rights Council’s 63rd session to press delegates on a conflict they say has been deliberately set aside.

Thousands demand end to violence in Mexican cartel hotspot

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Culiacán to demand an end to the violence that has wracked the city in northern Mexico.

Ex-senator Babar criticizes campaign for new provinces in Pakistan

In Islamabad, former senator Farhatullah Babar said that the campaign to create new provinces in Pakistan reflects an approach that, in his view, threatens democracy and provincial autonomy.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attends court in The Hague

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attended a hearing Wednesday at the International Criminal Court, where he’s facing charges of crimes against humanity, smiling and waving to supporters during his first public appearance in over a year.