LONDON -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...

The ruling excludes transgender women from the definition under the British Equality Act, but the court emphasised that it ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A draft general amnesty law that could release over 2,000 prisoners in the Kurdistan Region is ready and awaiting a parliamentary vote, a government official said on ...

The Maldives has banned Israeli passport holders from entering its territory, the president’s office said on Wednesday, ...

NEW YORK -- Human rights advocacy group Amnesty International on Tuesday launched ... the Chinese government imposed a national security law in 2020. The rights group in October 2021 announced ...

Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that "the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality ...

Amnesty International is relaunching its Hong Kong branch after quitting the Chinese territory for security reasons in 2021.