TEHRAN, May 24 - Nigeria's military committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including torture, rape and killing civilians during its fight against Boko Haram, human rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 23 - Two hundred professors at one of California's top universities on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the school's president over a widening sexual abuse scandal involving a campus gynecologist.
TEHRAN, May 10 - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on Myanmar’s government to hold accountable the perpetrators of widespread violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority country’s northwest over the past year and a half.
TEHRAN, May 8 - Seventeen Nigerian survivors of a 2017 migrant boat sinking have filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights accusing Italy of violating their human rights by "subcontracting" their rescue to Libya.
TEHRAN, April 25 - Kuwait on Wednesday ordered the Philippines ambassador to leave within a week and recalled its own envoy for consultations after embassy staff tried to "rescue" Filipino domestic workers amid reports of abuse .
TEHRAN, March 12 - Pedophiles in central England abuse d up to 1,000 girls, some as young as 11, over a four-decade period, the Sunday Mirror newspaper reported.
TEHRAN, March 9 - The United Nations human rights chief says Myanmar is making “serial denials” of the state-sponsored abuse s carried out against Rohingya Muslims, shortly after a Myanmarese official demanded evidence of alleged genocide.
TEHRAN, February 19 - A former English youth soccer coach was jailed Monday for 30 years for abusing 12 young footballers after the judge called him the "devil incarnate."
TEHRAN, February 9 - The White House has been accused of covering up allegations of domestic violence amid reports senior officials knew for months about the allegations leveled at a top employee but did nothing.
TEHRAN, January 19 - The Philippines suspended the sending of workers to Kuwait on Friday, its labor minister said, a day after the country's president complained of abuse s being inflicted on Filipino domestic helpers, leading to several suicides.
TEHRAN, January 5 - An Alabama woman who accused former US Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old has sued Moore and his campaign for what she said was defamation.
TEHRAN, December 28 - While thousands are decrying the reported abuse of Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia, one woman hopes to stir more activism in Africa.
TEHRAN, September 22 -Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed regret about the abusive treatment of the indigenous peoples of Canada throughout the country’s history, vowing to rectify the historical wrongs.
TEHRAN, September 5 - A 54-year-old British man has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing three blind students at a school in the Indian capital, police said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, September 4 - A United Nations commission of inquiry has issued a report on the rights situation in Burundi, accusing government forces and loyalists of committing crimes against humanity in the Central African country.
TEHRAN, June 13, YJC - Employees working in a factory that makes clothes for Ivanka Trump’s fashion label have complained about their surprisingly low wages and abusive working conditions.
TEHRAN, May 13, YJC - Eight Emirati princesses, a mother and her seven daughters, are being tried at a court in Belgium for suspected inhumane treatment of servants and human trafficking in a long-running court case of potentially dire consequences for the royalty.
Hungarian border police are systematically abusing migrants, through beatings, using tear gas and dogs and confiscating shoes in cold weather, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).