Accused of carrying out 3,000 extrajudicial executions, the Philippines' ultra-hardline President Duterte now threatens to kill human rights activists who dare to complain about it.
The evacuation of eastern Aleppo is underway, but most will be taken to rebel-controlled areas in neighboring Idlib governorate—likely the regime’s next target for recapture.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warns that arbitrary killings and other grave rights abuses continue to plague the Central African Republic amid multi-factional fighting.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that South Sudan "teeters on the brink of a disaster," and called for deploying 4,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians.
Weeks of relentless street protests in South Korea finally succeeded in impeaching President Park Geun-Hye. Can a similar stateside mobilization stop Trump's inauguration?
Climate change is found to blame for a massive avalanche that killed nine yak-herders in Tibet, as indigenous resistance continues to China's extractive agenda for the region.
A fragile ceasefire has taken effect in Aleppo as pro-Assad forces seize most of the city, but the regime is failing to follow through on a pledge to evacuate residents to a "safe zone."
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights accused Syrian pro-government forces of going door-to-door and systematically killing civilians in the re-taken city of Aleppo.
As pro-Assad forces close in on the last opposition-held areas of Aleppo, reports are coming out of the stricken city that residents face mass detention and atrocities.
The UK government said it will use its terrorism laws to ban the neo-Nazi group linked to the assassination of MP Jo Cox, marking the first time such a step has been taken.
A bombing during Sunday Mass at a chapel attached to Cairo's main Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 on the Egyptian holiday marking the birth of the Prophet Muhammed.
With action in the Security Council blocked by Russia and China, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution demanding an immediate end to all attacks on civilians in Syria.
