HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights activists say he was detained solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.

The Commission on Human Rights is probing Duterte's bloody war on drugs.

Ebenezer St John's Presbyterian Church in Australia said Facebook post had "practical consequences".

Video appears to show soldiers beating men with batons and forcing them to drink dirty river water.

14-year-old Ona was caught up in protests when officers allegedly shot him four times.

Award-winning British photojournalist Dan Kitwood has spent several days in Bangladesh covering the Rohingya refugee crisis. His photos show the scale of the exodus as wave after wave of desperate people arrive by land, river and sea.

Burmese government accused of widespread abuses against Muslim minority forced to flee to Bangladesh.

Myanmar's de-facto leader is accused of turning a blind eye to widespread atrocities against the minority.

Critics see the measly budgetary allocation as a big blow to the Commission on Human Rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi's government has been accused of targeting Rohingyas in "ethnic cleansing" operation.

Public caning is widespread in Banda Aceh province, where people are tried under sharia law.

Security forces accused of excessive violence as Venezuela faces anti-government unrest.

Exclusion comes a month after Israeli government announced it would close organisation's bureau.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of possible ethnic cleansing and a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

India's Supreme Court ruled that the controversial divorce practice is unconstitutional on 22 August.

"Ultimately, this is about basic decency" Obama wrote in a statement.

The Rohingya are effectively stateless. Neither Bangladesh nor Myanmar recognises them as citizens. They live in apartheid-like conditions.

The victims are Muslim, and the persecutors are Buddhist - which doesn't neatly fit our Western world-view.

A BBC Panorama programme detailed a 'culture of abuse' at the site.

Almost 90,000 people have fled the country to Bangladesh after security forces torched entire villages.

Among new arrivals, about 16,000 are school-age children and more than 5,000 are under the age of five, aid workers say.

The West's indifference to Iran's historic crimes lets my brother's killers get away with murder.

"Myanmar doesn't distinguish between the terrorists and civilians. They are hunting all the Rohingya."

Jess Phillips has criticised certain south Asian communities' attitudes towards the role of women.

President Kadyrov claims children of divorced parents are more likely to join extremist groups.

Tensions running high in Rome as hundreds of refugees evicted from houses encamp in streets as 'they have nowhere to go'

Alisha Coleman, a former 911 operator, is suing her former employer with the help of ACLU.

"I had never seen bananas."

Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Africa's second-longest-ruling leader, will hand power to the election winner, expected to be Joao Lourenco of MPLA.