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Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned senior Iranian security officials and the country's "so-called Morality Police," saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear and how they behave in public. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police...

Women demonstrated across various cities in Afghanistan after dozens of mostly young women were killed in an attack on a school last week. Dressed in a long black abaya with her face mask secured, university professor Zahra Mosawi walked the streets of the ancient Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif to...

A senior member of the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan has called on the country’s new rulers to reopen schools for girls beyond the sixth year, saying there is no valid reason in Islam for the ban. The appeal from Taliban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai on...

The decision confirmed an earlier ruling that each of the women who worked in the brothels set up for U.S. soldiers should be compensated between 3 million won and 7 million won (about $2,092 to $4,881). The verdict also confirmed the existence of the brothels set up in U.S. military camptown in...

At least 76 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces during 11 days of unrest sparked by the death of a woman in custody, activists say, and hundreds more, including journalists, have been arrested. Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based organisation, accused authorities of using...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all journalists arrested while covering mass protests around the country and restore blocked internet access. CPJ has learned from multiple sources inside Iran that as of Monday...

The Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Malakal opened its doors in late 2013 to offer refuge to people fleeing South Sudan’s ruinous civil war. Accounts of sexual abuse committed by aid workers first emerged in 2015, but the scale of the problem has since grown despite a UN-led task force charged...

A team tasked with investigating alleged violations in Venezuela said it had uncovered how members of intelligence services implemented orders by President Nicolás Maduro and others in a scheme to stifle opposition. “In doing so, grave crimes and human rights violations are being committed...

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran's Kurdistan province, fell into a coma and died following her arrest in Tehran last week by the morality police, sparking demonstrations in numerous areas including the capital. The Hengaw Human Rights Organization tweeted that two people were killed as security...

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has selected 13 journalists, historians, artists, and activists to receive grants to create small projects based on the archives of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague and domestic courts in former Yugoslav countries. The recipients of the grants will...