Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, 44, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after documenting protests and civilian suffering in Iran, a punishment she says was imposed because she continued to work
For 27 years, Ahmad Khan’s life was in Pakistan. Originally from Afghanistan, he ran a small shoe shop in Sialkot in the north, sent his children to a local school and watched
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Erblin Ademi watched from a distance as workers began excavating recently discovered mass graves in Kosovo. Nearly 30 years after his father disappeared during the 1998-99 war, Ademi is caught between fear
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Lebanon has formally abolished the death penalty, marking a significant legal and human rights shift in the Middle East after more than two decades in which executions had effectively been suspended but
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Five years after the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, the country is confronting a humanitarian crisis that is becoming harder to contain. Millions are struggling with hunger and disease, families have
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More than 130 people have died and over 2,000 are reported missing after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Colombia, triggering a nationwide emergency and a major search-and-rescue operation across affected communities. The
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While centre driven and managed high level economic changes, both structural and financial, are necessary, an assumption that the benefits of such changes will flow to the periphery through a trickledown theory
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At Stanley prison, on the southern edge of Hong Kong Island, Jimmy Lai’s solitary confinement extends far beyond the walls of his cell. According to his family, the 78-year-old is held alone
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Some 1,500 couples have married in a mass wedding organised by the government of Kano State in northern Nigeria, in a programme intended to help people who might otherwise be unable to
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The Chinese government-installed “11th Panchen Lama”, Gyaltsen Norbu, met Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Party Secretary Wang Junzheng on August 3, with the meeting focusing on political loyalty, national unity, religious policy and
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When people hear the word “psychopath”, the image that often comes to mind is that of a serial killer or violent criminal, shaped as much by Hollywood as by psychology. Hannibal Lecter,
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A global debate over how to protect children from the risks of social media is gathering pace, but Japan is resisting the blanket age bans being adopted elsewhere. Instead, the country is
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A court in the US state of New Mexico has ruled that Meta must pay 567 million US dollars over the psychological harm suffered by children, marking a significant development in legal
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An extensive investigation by the Lebanese human rights organisation Legal Agenda, conducted alongside international monitors Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, argues that the killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was not
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The lack of adequate and dignified housing has been one of the primary human rights and infrastructure issues faced for decades by the estate community, who are the producers of Sri Lanka’s
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It has been seven years since Article 370 and 35A were read down and the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the Union Territories of J&K (with a legislature)
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