HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights groups are mobilising against the death sentence by stoning of a woman in Sudan.

China has been accused of setting up more than 50 unofficial police "offices" in several countries across Europe to clamp down on its dissidents.

Gay couples heading to Qatar to witness the Football World Cup in November should not expect to be able to kiss in the streets.

Britain told China's Charge d'Affaires in London that the right to peaceful protest must be respected, after he was summoned to explain an incident in which a protester was seen being pulled into the grounds of a Chinese consulate and beaten.

Women across the world have come out in support of women in Iran as they continue their protests against the country's morality police

Three Saudi tribesmen have been sentenced to death for refusing to leave their homes to make way for the government's ambitious project Neom mega city.

Conservative party members have been accused of using homophobic slurs at an event organised to celebrate LGBTQ+ diversity in Birmingham on Tuesday.

The investigation began after a 2021 report by The Athletic about abusive behavior and sexual misconduct by former Portland Thorns manager Paul Riley.

Female staff working at Australian research stations in Antarctica have had to endure sexual harassment in the workplace.

The police have launched an investigation after the staff at one of the UK's biggest NHS mental health hospitals were caught mistreating their patients.

The latest research by the University of Cambridge has found that the institution received "significant benefits" from the transatlantic slave trade.

Thousands of men and women have taken to the streets in Iran after a woman who was arrested for breaking hijab laws died in police custody last week.

An Iranian woman who was given a death sentence died of a heart attack after seeing 16 men executed before her turn.

A man hurled racist and homophobic abuse at a fellow passenger onboard an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Dallas.

Two women have accused a cabinet minister and a senior aide in Boris Johnson's government of sexual misconduct.

A 19-year-old woman was forced to execute her own mother under Iran's barbaric laws

They took their case to the UN, where a panel of special investigators in 2021 expressed "serious concern" at the UK's failure to offer a public apology or acknowledge their share of responsibility for these colonial-era abuses.

Singapore's LGBTQ community on Monday welcomed the government's plan to decriminalise gay sex.

A professor in India was forced to resign from her job at a prominent university for posting pictures of herself in a swimsuit on her Instagram account.

Inherited from the British colonial era, section 377A of Singapore's penal code penalises sex between men with up to two years in jail.

For ordinary Afghans -- especially women -- the return of the Taliban has only increased hardships.

A five-year-old girl, Zoey, was allegedly kicked out of her school in Louisiana because her parents are a same-sex couple.

Archie was found unconscious at home in April with signs he had placed a cord around his neck, possibly after taking part in an online asphyxiation challenge.

A crisis of public confidence in the police saw Cressida Dick resign as Met commissioner in February.

Iran has now banned women from appearing in advertisements over an ice cream ad that went against "public decency."

A US woman has taken the internet by storm after she added "sex work" in the work experience section of her LinkedIn profile.

A disabled woman has been slapped with £1,000 in fines for using a disabled-parking space reserved for visitors outside her flat in Cardiff Bay.

Two British men who had been detained in the United Arab Emirates gave evidence before a U.N. committee.

Days after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 10-year-old rape victim had to travel all the way to Indiana from Ohio to get an abortion.