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Non-existent justice system is undermining efforts to rebuild CAR and create a sustainable peace, says rights group.

The whereabouts of Anastasia Zotova's husband have been unknown for more than a month.

The human rights group Amnesty International has said the paramilitary formations must be held to account.

Classified government records are believed to have been accessed by the hackers.

Saudi Arabia admitted using cluster munitions in Yemen, but also pledged to stop using the weapon in the future.

Duterte declared on 12 December that he had killed alleged drug addicts and traffickers while he was the mayor of Davao city.

Snowden wrote the letter to Annie Alfred as part of Amnesty International's campaign against human rights violations.

The arrest follows a travel ban and a freezing of Azza Soliman's assets in November.

The photos will be shown in an open-air exhibition as part of Amnesty International's I Welcome campaign and mark the lead up to Magnum Photos' 70th anniversary.

Some women, frustrated by poverty and deep-rooted patriarchy, have chosen to join the jihadist group.

UN human rights chief condemns attacks on rebel-held east Aleppo as 'crimes of historic proportions'.

Nigerian officials have said that the human rights body is trying to tarnish the security forces' reputation.

Chijoke Stephen Obiaha and Devendran Supramaniam were executed on 18 November.

The case has sparked a rare discussion on the rule of law, corruption and the death penalty in the country.

The human rights organisation Amnesty International has called on Iraqi authorities to investigate the abuses.

The Pentagon released figures which totalled 119 civilian casualties since 2014.

Attack on village of Hass comes as Amnesty International accuses coalition of killing hundreds of civilians.

An investigation carried out by the group suggests coalition forces failed to protect civilians.

The report titled Island Of Despair claimed that the Australian immigration in Nauru was an 'open-air prison'.

Amnesty International's new report details abuses suffered by Sunni Arabs fleeing Isis-controlled areas.

Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee has been given six years in jail for an unpublished work of fiction she wrote.

Amnesty says countries in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa have accepted 56% of the world's refugees.

Detainees were allegedly subjected to beatings, choking with plastic bags, strangulation, waterboarding and electric shocks.

The human rights campaign group also claims that police officers of SARS steal money from criminal suspects.

The former NSA whistleblower claims people had benefited from his disclosures.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other major human rights groups also backing the campaign.

The woman was detained in 2014 and accused of cooperating with Isis in the killing of 3 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.

Improvements demanded to 'horrendous' meals and solitary confinement policies.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe accused of plotting to topple the Iranian regime.

Boris Johnson insists Britain 'operates one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world'.