Update: On September 27, 2025, a court in Da Nang convicted and sentenced Trinh Ba Phuong, already serving a 10-year sentence, to an additional 11 years for criticizing the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Ghanaian lawmakers are renewing efforts to pass the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Act, 2024, a controversial, anti-LGBTQ+ bill that criminalizes the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities and disbands ...

CARACAS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan human rights activist and a political consultant were shot and injured in Colombia's capital on Monday in a hitman-style attack, Colombian officials said.

For more than a decade Razan Zaitouneh, Syria’s celebrated 36-year-old human-rights lawyer and activist stood her ground against the depredations of President Bashar Assad’s regime. But her strength ...

(Johannesburg) – A Zimbabwe court’s acquittal of three human rights activists on disorderly conduct charges more than a year after their arrest highlights the authorities’ misuse of the criminal ...

Israeli attacks on Iran have killed more than 400 people, including at least 197 civilians, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a nongovernmental organization that monitors the country. More ...