After being legitimised with an Islamic edict decades ago, the practice of “misyar”, the Muslim…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling on the Australian government to…

Iran’s supreme leader named former intelligence and security minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei as head of the…

International rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses Yemen’s Houthi authorities of unfairly prosecuting an…

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Ramallah, Hebron and Bethlehem for the fifth…

Saudi women’s rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah, detained nearly three years ago, have…

The BBC’s legal representatives have urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to take action…

Latest outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip has been accompanied by a “catalogue of…

A Palestinian activist and critic of the internationally-backed Palestinian Authority leadership died on Thursday after…

Inmates at Bahrain’s Jau prison claim authorities regularly delay or deny vital medical care to…