Nine former agents of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime asked forgiveness for their crimes -- a first for Chile -- but victims' families...
The UN Security Council dropped advancing gay rights from a tribute to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after Russia raised objections, diplomats said.
A draft statement that...
Israel's interior ministry has been ordered to grant citizenship to foreign-born same-sex spouses of Israelis under the same terms as traditional couples, the ministry's...
Multinational companies are selling consumer products containing palm oil from Indonesian plantations where workers suffer rights abuses, Amnesty International warned Wednesday, listing problems including...
A Philippine judge dismissed a narcotics trafficking charge against an Australian man after ruling police made up evidence, court documents show, as concerns mount...
Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista has led 53 governors, mayors and local government officials from over 20 countries in signing a commitment to promote...
A United Nations rights rapporteur told AFP Monday she intended to visit the Philippines to investigate President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on crime, but...
President Rodrigo Duterte ratcheted up his feud with the United States, ordering all American special forces out of the southern Philippines where they have...
