Zimbabwe's parliament on Monday voted to amend its constitution to empower the president to handpick the nation's top judges. With this amendment, President Robert Mugabe will have substantially greater power than he did under the 2013...

An Egyptian court sentenced 43 individuals to life in prison Tuesday for crimes of vandalism, rioting and attacking Egyptian authorities. The acts for which the protesters were convicted took place in 2011, among an outbreak of demonstrations against then-president Hosni...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte promised Monday to continue to escalate the war on drugs in his country despite international concern over human rights violations. The war on drugs, which has been a staple aspect of his presidency...

In a statement to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Yanghee Lee voiced her concern on Monday over the worsening human...

Iran's judiciary chief asked the US Monday to release Iranians jailed in the US and to return Iran's assets after President Donald Trump called on the state to release three detained US citizens. Iran's Judiciary...

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro announced on Sunday that a controversial election for a new national assembly will go forth as planned next weekend. The new Constituent Assembly will have the power to rewrite the nation's constitution...

Polish President Andrzej Duda announced on Monday that he is vetoing two proposed laws that threaten to limit the judiciary's independence. One of the bills, passed by the Polish Parliament last week with two...

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report on Friday welcoming a program, almost five years in the works, to register undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan. UNHCR estimates that between 600,000...

Amnesty International (AI) accused Cameroon of torturing suspected supporters of Boko Haram in a report released Thursday. According to the human rights organization, hundreds of suspects were "subjected to severe beatings, agonizing stress positions and...

Thailand's Supreme Court sentenced opposition leader Jatuporn Prompan to one year in prison for defaming Thailand's current prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva . Jatuporn, a leader of the "red shirt" opposition party, which supports two of Thailand's...