During its October 6 review by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), ...

Police carried out a dawn raid on the widely watched, independent news channel Halk TV on October 14, signaling its takeover by a government-appointed administrator who promptly ordered the station to ...

From the World Bank's annual meetings in Bangkok through October 18 to the following week’s Global AI and Digital Summit in Seoul, the Bank is promoting AI’s potential to deliver “more and better jobs ...

Images from ongoing student protests in France of heavily armed riot police using tear gas, stun grenades, batons, rubber ...

The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release three activists associated with the overseas Viet Tan organization who ...

Senegal’s growing crackdown on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people is violating their rights, causing ...

A United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on October 7 calling for concrete action against systemic racism should have ...

A Saudi court has sentenced a Sri Lankan migrant worker to death over a Facebook comment that was deemed blasphemous.

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Uganda to significantly expand government support for ...

Every October, Japan celebrates Sports Day, a public holiday established to commemorate the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and Japan's longstanding commitment to sport as a national priority.

A lawyer in Niger faces prosecution over comments about the army on social media while a prominent journalist and critic of ...

Burundi is set to win re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote on October 12, 2026, with no competition.