Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering ...

Haiti’s record violence highlights systemic issues of displacement, human rights abuses, and violence against women, with the ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on Wednesday that the escalating gang ...

The report documents violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws, including possible war crimes ...

Gang violence killed more than 5,600 people in Haiti in 2024, a figure more than 1,000 deaths higher than 2023's toll ...

These figures alone cannot capture the absolute horrors being perpetrated in Haiti, but they show the unremitting violence to which people are being subjected,”  said U.N. High Commissioner for Human ...

Iran saw an alarming rise in executions, reaching 901, including 31 women largely convicted for murder amidst contexts of ...

On January 3, 2025, during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) representative for the West Bank and ...

Most executions were for drug-related offences, but political dissidents and people connected with mass protests in 2022 were ...

Violent gangs control most of the Caribbean country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. More than 5,600 people were killed and thousands more injured or kidnapped in 2024 due to soaring levels of gang violence ...

The ultraconservative shift of the ruling party in Tbilisi, mirroring the paths taken by Russia and Hungary, has intensified ...