Human Rights

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Monday awarded its human rights prize to Saudi Arabian activist Loujain…

Sex work. The issue of whether a country should criminalize the industry is a polarizing one — and no less…

Successful women have been making headlines in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Just this week, 28-year-old Noura al-Matroushi was named the…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Joe Biden’s administration has told Congress it is proceeding with more than $23 billion in…

Saudi Arabia executed three soldiers on Saturday for treachery and threatening the kingdom’s military interests, officials said. The trio had…

Beijing has accused the US of causing humanitarian disasters through military intervention and proxy wars around the globe in a report…

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey called in China’s ambassador on Tuesday after his embassy said it had “the right to respond”…

Saudi Arabia’s print media landscape has just been broadened with the publication of the high-end lifestyle magazines Harper’s Bazaar Saudi and Esquire…

At least 20 journalists have been expelled or forced to leave China since last year, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China has said.…

BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union will target eight Iranian militia and police commanders and three state entities with sanctions…