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Theresa May: What are the new prime minister's views on Brexit, human rights, gay marriage and more?
IBTimes UK investigates the political record of the incoming premier.
Israel imposes curbs on human rights groups that receive foreign funding
Israeli parliament passes law targeting liberal rights groups.
Torture in Burundi: Police said it 'would pull a tooth a day until I admitted I worked for human rights'
Former detainees told HRW Burundi's intelligence services has allegedly 'become increasingly vicious'.
Brazil: Police killed 645 people in Rio de Janeiro state in 2015
Human Rights Watch claims police officers routinely cover up extrajudicial killings in Rio de Janeiro
Brazil: Rio state failed to address threat of extrajudicial executions by corrupt police
Police killed 645 people in Rio state in 2015, and more than 8,000 in the last decade
Kenyan High Court hears details on torture and murder of rights lawyer Willie Kimani and associates
Initial reports suggest that Administration Police officers may have been involved in the murders.
Hong Kong rules out sending back bookseller Lam Wing-kee to China
Hong Kong vows to protect Lam in the face of Chinese threat against him.
Kenya: Willie Kimani autopsy reveals lawyer and associates were beaten and strangled to death
Three police officers are being held over offences relating to the killings.
Kenya: Human-rights groups call for police accountability in wake of 'unlawful' detentions
UPDATE: Bodies of rights lawyer Willie Kimani and his driver Joseph Muiruri allegedly found in Nairobi
Migrant crisis: France broke international law deporting dozens to high-risk countries
'These migrants have probably suffered inhuman treatment upon arrival,' human-rights groups have warned.
Burundi: Increased violence and incitement have 'ethnic conflict' overtones, UN warns
Leaders spark genocide fears with anti-Tutsi propaganda amid violent political crackdown.
Environmental Photographer of the Year 2016: Winners and shortlisted images
Stunning photos raise awareness of issues like sustainable development, pollution and human rights.
Human Rights Watch: Ex-Chad president and dictator Hissene Habre 'was enabled' by France and US
'Africa's Pinochet' was convicted of crimes against humanity, rape, sexual slavery and torture in May.
String of rapes in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp forces communities to set up vigilante groups
IBTimes UK investigates claims that Somali women and girls in the camp have been targets of sexual violence.
Israel grants refugee status to first Sudanese asylum seeker Mutasim Ali
Interior Ministry says it was a unique decision as Ali hopes it is a turning point for Africans.
Central African Republic: Police anti-crime unit 'executed 18 people in broad daylight' says HRW
Human Rights Watch calls for prosecution of former banditry controller Robert Yékoua-Ketté.
Germans protest nude swimming ban ahead of refugee centre opening
Nudists claim ban undermines their way of life, known as Freikorperkultur, or Free Body Culture.
Meet the LGBTI Ugandan community living in fear in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp
LGBTI refugees fled systematic human rights violations against the community in Uganda
Isolated LGBTI Ugandans face traumatic persecution in Kenyan refugee camps
IBTimes UK meets LGBTI Ugandans who claim they suffer attacks despite seeking safety in Kenya.
World Refugee Day 2016: Iceland and Sweden deny asylum to Nigerian Boko Haram victim
Eze Okafur was stabbed and his brother killed when militants stormed their house in Maiduguri in 2010.
Released Hong Kong bookseller says he contemplated suicide while held in China
Lam Wing Kee is one of five Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared in the last year.
Kenya: Kakuma refugee camp celebrates the Day of the African Child
Photo story: IBTimes UK commemorates Day of the African Child 2016 among Kakuma's most vulnerable children.
Ethiopia: Oromo people flee persecution, arrests and torture at hands of government forces
Activists and human-rights groups say authorities have killed more than 400 Oromo people since November 2015.
Migrant crisis: Ethiopia claims UN trust fund sponsored Eritrean rebel groups
UN set up the trust fund to help economic development in countries that people attempt to leave for Europe.
Prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab arrested in Bahrain
Human rights group says arrest is part of a synchronised effort 'to silence civil society in Bahrain'.
Protests erupt outside Apple offices in Europe over alleged use of child labour
Demonstrations took place in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Prague and Brussels over the weekend (11-12 June) outside regional offices of phone giant Apple.
UN wants Eritrea probed over 'widespread' crimes against humanity
New report claims abuses widespread in Eritrea, but government rejects allegations.
Congolese peacekeepers got away with murdering 18 people in Central African Republic says HRW
UN, AU and Congo officials fail to probe executions of civilians, including 7-month-old baby.
Kenya: Anti-election protesters hit Nairobi streets despite police threats of lethal force
UPDATE: Unconfirmed reports that one person has died during the protests in western city of Kisumu.
Jailed activists branded 'terrorists' by DRC regime are bringing humanity back to Congo's prisons
Dozens of pro-democracy activists have been arrested, trialled and sentenced to long prison sentences in a politically-motivated campaign to silence dissents in the resource-rich nation.