The UN Human Rights Council held an emergency session today on the imminent risk of atrocities in and around Sudan’s El Obeid, a city in North Kordofan. The session follows an appeal by rights groups ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the many recommendations addressing Georgia’s deepening human rights crisis, including those calling for the repeal of laws restricting civil society and independent media, ...

Islamic militants and Malian armed forces and their allies committed serious rights abuses against civilians during attacks across the West African country earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said.

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what’s now Belgium and France shortly before the species vanished seem to have been genetically diverse and healthy In a ...