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British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Tuesday for a worldwide ban on female genital mutilation and child marriage as he launched the first...
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The FBI encouraged and sometimes even paid Muslims to commit terrorist acts during numerous sting operations after the 9/11 attacks, a human rights group...
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Bolivia passed a law Thursday authorizing children to work from age 10, saying the rule is necessary due to realities in the impoverished country...
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Sri Lanka announced Thursday an investigation into its military over allegations of rights abuses, following intense international pressure for a war-crimes probe into the...
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Cuban authorities arrested an unusually large group of about 100 dissident marchers Sunday, breaking up a march by the Ladies in White opposition activists....
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A new Amnesty International report on Friday highlighted the “hundreds” of abductions and incidents of torture by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, and also criticised...
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The International Labour Organization said Thursday it was investigating a new law in Bolivia that allows children as young as 10 to work, amid...
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Activists, lawyers, journalists, bloggers, professors — China’s new leaders have taken aim at civil society in what analysts call an effort to muffle dissent...
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EU efforts to seal off Europe’s borders to illegal migrants have also shut off access to refugees from conflict, thus putting their lives at...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised human rights issues publicly in China on Tuesday — unlike many Western visitors — invoking the fall of the...