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In her first report to the UN Human Rights Council, UN expert Ikponwosa Ero noted the increasing violence against people with albinism triggered by fallacious "witchcraft" beliefs. Those with albinism are reportedly being hunted, killed and...

Iran billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani was sentenced to death on Sunday after being found guilty on charges of fraud involving an oil fund, a judicial official stated. Zanjani, a 42-year-old oil tycoon who currently is one of Iran's richest...

EU foreign ministers on Monday agreed to lift most of the EU's economic sanctions against Belarus, citing improvements [press release in the country's human rights record. The Council of the EU cited Belarus' participation in various organizations and negotiations including...

Nearly 40 years after the 1979 Revolution in Iran, the nation's legal structures are still "deeply flawed," according to an 87-page report released Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) . Describing how the revolution elicited sweeping...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus reported Tuesday that the country's dismal human rights conditions have remained unchanged since the October presidential election. Miklós Haraszti, UN Special Rapporteur, reported human rights violations since the election that include harassment...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday urged the Sri Lankan government to investigate and locate thousands of civilians that went missing during the nation's civil war. Speaking at the end...

Experts from the UN and the Inter-American human rights systems urged Canada Monday to address the "root causes" of the extreme violence and discrimination against indigenous women and girls in the country at a meeting with Canadian Ministers...

United Nations rights experts on Monday asked Pakistani officials to stop construction work on a new metro line in Lahore, Pakistan due to concern that it has led to numerous people being forcibly evicted and that...

Amnesty International (AI) released a report Tuesday on the many juvenile offenders on death row in Iran. The report states that 73 executions of juvenile offenders took place between 2005 and 2015 and that...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday called for the protection of political oppositions associated with the assassinated Venezuelan opposition leader, Luis Diaz. Diaz was shot while on stage with jailed opposition...