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U.S. officials held formal direct talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, this week, with the American delegation pushing Afghanistan's hardline Islamic rulers to restore basic rights for women and girls and to free U.S. nationals detained in the country. According to a statement posted online by the...

The latest polls for Australia’s groundbreaking referendum about whether to change the constitution to recognize the first peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice this year aren’t looking too good for the Yes campaign. The Voice would be an independent and...

Fighting between the Myanmar army and anti-junta rebels has flared up in recent days, with local people in one village saying on Saturday that 14 people were killed in a single raid. Deadly violence has engulfed Myanmar since the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in February...

Taliban authorities have further increased restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan in recent months, including in education and employment, the UN said in a report on the human rights situation issued Monday. Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that only males will be allowed to...

The crisis in Myanmar should be referred to the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including widespread sexual violence, an open session at the UN security council will be told. Naw Hser Hser is the first Myanmar human rights defender to brief council members in...

Marking the United Nations International Decade of Indigenous Languages, an Aboriginal community in remote Central Australia is working on a ground-breaking new children’s album. Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kids Sing) is a collection of songs performed and recorded in the endangered Arrernte language...

Myanmar’s military rulers are preventing life-saving humanitarian aid from reaching people who need it as the country falls deeper into violence, the United Nations human rights chief has said. Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said the...

Myanmar’s military-controlled government is accusing pro-democracy fighters of killing 15 civilians in a nighttime mortar attack in a restive central area of the country, charges denied by the guerrilla group. A report Thursday in the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper said so-called People’s Defense...

Eighty Afghans may have been victim of summary killings by three separate British Special Air Service (SAS). units operating in the country between 2010 and 2013, lawyers representing the bereaved families have told a public inquiry. One of the elite soldiers is believed to have “personally killed”...

Thousands of people have rallied in cities and towns across Australia to back a campaign to recognize the country’s Indigenous people in the constitution in advance of a referendum later this year. The gatherings on Sunday, organized by the Yes23 campaign, were part of a nationwide “day of action”...