Image:The UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred de Zayas.
GENEVA (25 October 2017) - The UN Independent Expert...
Image:Vice President Leni Robredo.
The administration’s new source of financing for its ambitious infrastructure projects, China, could lead the Philippines into a “debt trap” as...
Image: The body of Argentine-born guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara is displayed in the village of Vallegrande, Bolivia, on Oct. 10, 1967. Guevara was executed a...
Image: Safety in peril: Amal Clooney and former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed in London in January 2016. | Photo Credit: AP.
In a recent interview to...
‘In India, Another Government Critic Is Silenced by Bullets’, is how the New York Times reported the murder of Gauri Lankesh, a gutsy journalist known for...
Image: Indian businessmen Ajay Gupta and younger brother Atul Gupta in 2011. The family of Indian-born tycoons are close to president Jacob Zuma. Photograph: Gallo...
Remarks of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice G. Wells on Indo-Pacific Regional Architecture.
Indian Ocean Conference 2017, Colombo,...
Multan, July 27 (Reuters): Pakistani police have arrested 25 members of an informal village council accused of ordering the rape of a 16-year-old girl...
Image: Liu Xiaobo, mid-2000s.
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In the late 1960s Mao Zedong, China’s Great Helmsman, encouraged children and adolescents to confront their teachers and parents, root out...
BBC/ The centrist party of French President Emmanuel Macron looks on course to win a landslide victory following the first round of parliamentary elections.
As polls...
Image: Ireland's Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar launches his campaign bid for Fine Gael party leader in Dublin Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters.
Trained doctor takes insurmountable lead...
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Women and girls don’t have to carry Kalashnikovs to strike...
Image: Armin Laschet, top candidate of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union celebrates after the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections. Photograph: Kay Nietfeld/AFP/Getty Images.
Editorial.
Last week France, next...
Image:Yameen Rasheed's family submit a petition to Maldives Police Services to investigate his murder. Dying Regime on Flickr.
48 rights groups strongly condemn the brutal...
Image: Emmanuel Macron: new French president. Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images.
Any other result would have been a European catastrophe and, for once, thank goodness, the opinion...
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By Siavash Ardalan, BBC Persian.
Iran is due to hold a presidential election on 19 May, in which the incumbent...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday endorsed the world’s first-ever vaccine for dengue fever, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus that threatens to...
Image: Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to the Myanmar community living in Singapore, on the island of Sentosa in Singapore September 22,...
18 March: A Le Pen campaign rally in Metz, France. Photo by Elyxandro Cegarra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.18 March: A Le Pen campaign rally in Metz,...
Image: 15 women activists participated at the recently concluded CEDAW- Sri Lanka session.
In its concluding observations of the recently concluded consideration of the 8th...
Geneva/Vienna (3 March 2017) – Leading monitors of freedom of expression around the world have come together to issue a Joint Declaration on freedom...
The body has been accused of unfairly targeting Israel, and Trump aides are questioning its usefulness.
By NAHAL TOOSI and ELIANA JOHNSON
The Trump administration is...
The power to issue detention orders for suspects arrested on terrorism-related activities should be given to a Deputy Inspector of Police instead of a...
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Sri Lankan police across Batticaloa have arrested 19 people for allegedly posting birthday wishes online for Liberation...
