SKIERS FILMED TRAPPED IN WILDLY SWINGING CHAIRLIFT AS STORM ELEANOR SWEEPS ACROSS EUROPE

Storm Eleanor has swept across northern Europe, killing at least four people and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes... READ MORE›

FOUR DEAD IN NEW YEAR SHOOTING IN NEW JERSEY

A New York apartment fire killed at least 12 people, including a baby, with four more critically injured... READ MORE›

'PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING': EYEWITNESSES DESCRIBE WORST NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT FIRE IN DECADES

New York Fire latest Witnesses of Bronx apartment block blaze describe hearing residents screaming... READ MORE›

CCTV SHOWS SUSPECTED ST PETERSBURG SUPERMARKET BOMBING SUSPECT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin called the bombing an act of terrorism... READ MORE›

COUPLE AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN FOUND DEAD IN NEW YORK BASEMENT WITH THROATS SLASHED IN 'POSSIBLE QUADRUPLE HOMICIDE'

A couple and two young children have been found dead in a basement in Troy, New York State with their throats slashed... READ MORE›

WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER KNIFE PULLED DURING MASS BRAWL AT CHRISTMAS TOY GIVEAWAY

Police in Detroit reportedly made the arrest after the fight broke out the City's Town Centre Mall on Saturday... READ MORE›

FIVE KILLED AFTER MOSCOW BUS DRIVES INTO PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS

Moscow bus drives into pedestrian underpass, killing five... READ MORE›

FAMILY 'ASKED TO TAKE 'OFFENSIVE' JESUS SIGN DOWN FROM CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS BY NEIGHBOUR'

Mark and Lynn Wivell said their homeowner's association had made the request after they put up the display outside their home in Adams County, Pennsylvania... READ MORE›

MANDELA BOOK SEQUEL LAUNCHED IN S AFRICA

The new instalment of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, has been released in Johannesburg... READ MORE›

UK ACCUSED OF DOING CHINA'S BIDDING AFTER POLICE RAID HOME OF TIANANMEN SQUARE SURVIVOR OVER PEACEFUL PROTEST

Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... READ MORE›

4 CARTOONS THAT SUM UP THE ABSURDITY OF SAUDI ARABIA LEADING A UN HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL

Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE›

'LADY SOS': THE WOMAN SAVING SYRIAN REFUGEES AT SEA

Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE›

FOR OBAMA PERSONAL AND PRESIDENTIAL INTERSECT IN KENYA

Two advocacy groups, Haki Africa and Muslims for Human Rights, or Muhuri, were placed on a list of entities suspected of ties to the Shabab... READ MORE›

LOOMING CRUCIFIXION SPARKS GLOBAL CALLS TO SPARE LIFE OF YOUNG SAUDI ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR

Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›

GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVEAL ITS ROLE IN GETTING SAUDI ARABIA A UN HUMAN RIGHTS ROLE

Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE›

OBAMA CALLS ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED

The recent election in Ethiopia was anything but a democratic one, said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›

15 OF NELSON MANDELA'S MOST INSPIRING QUOTES

Mandela Day 15 of Nelson Mandela's most inspiring quotes... READ MORE›

PALU JOURNAL A CITY TURNS TO FACE INDONESIAS MURDEROUS PAST

Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE›

THIS RANT COMPARING IDS AND CHINA WAS TOO MUCH FOR EVEN THE QUESTION TIME AUDIENCE

I just wonder how the Conservative government can scrutinise China for their human rights violations when they are being investigated themselves he said... READ MORE›

PUTIN SIGNS LAW ALLOWING RUSSIA TO OVERTURN RULINGS OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS COURTS

MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts... READ MORE›

WHY IS IT LEFT TO US NGOS TO EXPOSE AUSTRALIAN MINING'S WRONGDOING IN AFRICA?

The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE›

ORPHANAGE FOUNDER FROM AFRICA WINS PRIZE IN MEMORY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Ms. Barankitse was born in Burundi, a central African nation where a tumultuous ethnic conflict pit her people, the Tutsis, against the Hutus... READ MORE›

FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS BACKED BY THE U.S. WHOM YOU NEVER HEARD OF

More than 30 were killed, mostly at the hands of Bahraini security forces, and hundreds more were wounded, according to human rights groups... READ MORE›

VOICES FROM BURUNDI SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES

Ms. Nivyabandi also fled Burundi in 1993, when civil war erupted after soldiers from the country's Tutsi minority assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority... READ MORE›

SAUDI ARABIA CARRYING OUT 'UNPRECEDENTED WAVE' OF EXECUTIONS

There's a lot of speculation, says Adam Coogle, who monitors Saudi Arabia's use of the death penalty, for Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›

U.S. BLOCKS SOME ANTI-DRUG FUNDS FOR MEXICO OVER HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS

State Department has decided that Mexico failed to reach some human rights goals triggering a cutoff of millions of dollars in aid... READ MORE›

NOT BEING TORTURED ISN'T THE ONLY HUMAN RIGHT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED

A day does not go by without news reports of grave human rights abuses in countries across all regions of the world... READ MORE›

SENIOR UN OFFICIAL CASTIGATES WORLD BANK OVER ITS APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS

For decades, the World Bank has argued that human rights and development are mutually reinforcing... READ MORE›

AI WEIWEI ACCUSES CAMERON OF SACRIFICING BRITAIN'S VALUES BY PURSUING CHINA'S MONEY

Ai Weiwei accuses David Cameron of sacrificing UK's human rights record for Chinese cash... READ MORE›

BURUNDI HOLDS ELECTIONS AFTER NIGHT OF GUNFIRE

At a half-dozen polling stations, only a trickle of people were seen voting, pressing an ink-stained thumb on a ballot... READ MORE›

HOW A UK POP SONG HELPED FREE ICON

'Free Nelson Mandela' was effective for two reasons, Gambaccini said... READ MORE›

BURUNDI EYES RWANDA WITH SUSPICION

Instead, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda said Mr. Nkurunziza should not run again because he had failed his people, a remark that angered Burundian officials... READ MORE›

RUSSELL BRAND DESCRIBES ONE-MINUTE'S SILENCE FOR TUNISIA VICTIMS AS 'ABSOLUTE BULL****'

Russell Brand describes one-minute's silence for Tunisia victims as 'absolute bull '... READ MORE›

Related Stories Torture is still rife in Mexico and is routinely used to extract confessions, according to a new report by human rights organisation Amnesty International... READ MORE›

FEAR STALKS BURUNDI AS BESIEGED REGIME TURNS TO TORTURE

Victims say president Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to turn Hutus against Tutsis as protests continue against government... READ MORE›

WHAT THE WORLD IS SAYING ABOUT THE CIA TORTURE REPORT

But the Obama administration, having formally banned torture, hasn't lifted a finger to punish those guilty for these egregious human rights abuses... READ MORE›

WOMEN IN INDONESIA SUBJECTED TO PAINFUL 'VIRGINITY TESTS' TO JOIN POLICE FORCE

The Government in Indonesia is subjecting female recruits for its national police to painful and traumatic virginity tests, a human rights watchdog has found... READ MORE›

DAVID CAMERON DISMISSES RISK OF RIFT WITH US OVER CHINA

Amnesty International has also promised demonstrations in London over China's human rights record... READ MORE›

UN LASHES AUSTRALIAN 'CONTEMPT AND HOSTILITY' TOWARD ASYLUM SEEKERS

"Too often, governments try to avoid their legal obligations to refugees and victims of human trafficking by characterising them all as 'migrants', labelling victims of abuse as 'illegal'," it says... READ MORE›