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German girl, 5, not exposed to daylight ‘for years'

13 Jan 2020

German prosecutors on Monday said they had opened an investigation after it emerged that a badly neglected five-year-old girl had reportedly not been exposed to daylight "for years." Social...

I’m a BAME EU citizen who can’t vote

12 Nov 2019

Almara Abgarian, The Independent From the never-ending Brexit shambles to politicians being unable to put party squabbles aside long enough to actually govern the country, the future looks bleak ahead...

UN members split on China’s Uighur rights record

30 Oct 2019

China's mass detention and surveillance of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang province came under fire at the United Nations Tuesday, with 23 nations -- mostly western -- backing a...

VIDEO: Man arrested for beating up minors in viral video in Pakistani city of Okara

19 Oct 2019

A Pakistan man was arrested on Saturday for brutally thrashing three minors after a video of the incident went viral on social media. The incident took place in a...

Pakistan PM Imran warns of 'bloodbath' after Kashmir curfew lifted

28 Sep 2019

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan warned on Friday there would be a bloodbath when India lifts its curfew in disputed Kashmir and that any all-out conflict between the two nuclear-armed...

Philippines halts aid talks with backers of UN rights probe into drug war

21 Sep 2019

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration has ordered the suspension of all loan and grant talks with foreign governments that backed a United Nations resolution to review human rights abuses during...

600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar at 'serious risk of genocide': UN

16 Sep 2019

Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a "serious risk of genocide", UN investigators said Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army...

UN rights chief slams US move to detain migrant children indefinitely

04 Sep 2019

The US government's recent decision to remove legal limits on how long migrant children can be detained clearly flouts international law, the UN rights chief said Wednesday. UN High Commissioner...

UN report warns of rising seas, storm surges, melting permafrost

29 Aug 2019

Humanity should brace itself for serious blowback over the next few centuries from oceans and Earth's frozen zones, according to the draft of a major UN report obtained by the...

Rohingya refugees protest exodus, demand rights in Myanmar

25 Aug 2019

Thousands of angry and frustrated Rohingya refugees marked the second anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar into Bangladesh on Sunday by demanding their citizenship and other rights in the country...

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