As refugees begin to leave the Mahmur camp in northern Iraq, Amnesty International has urged the authorities to allowTurkish citizens of Kurdish origin to return ...
The Peruvian Congress' has decided to stand by its proposal todecriminalize abortion in cases where women and girls become pregnantas a result of rape or incest ...
The military has refused to allow members of the tribe to use major roads to flee the government’s latest offensive against the Pakistani Taleban, witnesses have ...
Many migrant workers in South Korea are beaten, trafficked for sexualexploitation and denied their wages for long periods despite theintroduction of rules to protect ...
With the implementation of the Employment Permit System (EPS) in August 2004, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became one of the first Asian countries to legally ...
British national Akmal Shaikh, who is believed to be mentally ill, has been sentenced to death in China for drug-smuggling. He has now lost his appeal, and could ...
When thousands of tonnes ofdeadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on 2 December 1984, around half a million people were exposed ...
