(UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Photo: AFP))
Human Rights Council.
Opening Statement by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner...
Agence France-Presse.
The UN human rights chief has launched a scathing attack on populist politicians including Donald Trump and the Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders,...
By JOHN MARKOFFSEPT.
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to...
Bangkok, August 24, 2016 - Authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat should credibly investigate the murder of journalist Kishore Dave and swiftly bring...
JULY 28, 2016.
Hillary Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times
Following is a transcript of Hillary Clinton’s...
Even historic defenders of speech like Denmark and the United Kingdom are starting to choose "social harmony" over free expression.
By Jacob Mchangama
Over the past...
Written by Jennifer Blanke.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere...
(Documents detail how to enforce sleep deprivation, limit the caloric intake of food and the correct positions required for waterboarding)
The CIA has declassified documents about...
Image: Nearly 39,500 people sought asylum in Switzerland last year, making it one of Europe's top seven destinations in terms of asylum requests per...
New York. May 26, 2016--The NGO Committee of the United Nations voted today to deny the Committee to Protect Journalists consultative status with the...
By P.K.Balachandran
COLOMBO: Buddhist heritage is emerging as a major plank in Asian diplomacy. South, South East and East Asian countries are using Buddhism and...
(Trump … ‘I’m not sure he knows what he thinks’ Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
As he appears in new documentary The Divide, the great intellectual explains...
US ambassador says move by Organization of Islamic Cooperation represents an ‘epidemic and severely damages the credibility of the UN’
Samantha Power, the US ambassador...
Recent data show Sanders has double-digit lead in support over Republican candidate while Clinton would face tight race.
Sanders has performed best in "open" primaries,...
Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte speaks to supporters during an election campaign rally ahead of the presidential and vice presidential elections, in Manila on May...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) marked World Press Freedom Day by releasing The Road to...
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Prominent journalists, activists and scholars from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, the US and other countries have urged the Nepal government...
(Solar Impulse 2 flying over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California0- Keystone)
Solar Impulse 2, the Swiss solar-powered plane, landed in California on...
By Story Hinckley.
Bernie Sanders says actor George Clooney, an outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, is backing the wrong presidential candidate.
George Clooney admits that he has...
(Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of ICIJ, talks with Le Monde reporters at the organization’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 22, 2015. Photo...
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...
Cropped photo from the original by Sindu S
Sri Lankan police across Batticaloa have arrested 19 people for allegedly posting birthday wishes online for Liberation...
