The Supreme Court is to issue its judgement on how a woman should be defined in law next week. The case is the culmination of ...

The number of executions in Saudi Arabia doubled in 2024 as the Middle East led a global surge, according to a new report by ...

Israel’s military has transformed every bit of Gazan territory within about half a mile of the Israeli border into a ...

In January, one senior official left Afghanistan after speaking out against the ban, which has denied education to more than ...

Relations between Algeria and the military alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have plunged to historic lows as the two ...

Rodrigo Duterte, the former Philippine president who is facing charges of crimes against humanity, is running for mayor in a ...

The Amhara, Ethiopia’s second-largest ethnic group, once dominated national politics. Many among the rebels want to see them ...

Last week marked the anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report; a confronting 689-page landmark document that exposed the ...

Funding cuts makes girls increasingly vulnerable, including to child marriage, human trafficking, begging and child labour ...

Amnesty International Malaysia says commitment to reform must go beyond maintaining the current moratorium on executions.

The number of people known to have been executed last year was the highest in almost a decade, with Iran, Iraq and Saudi ...