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Britain on Wednesday announced a package of sanctions against what they described as “global violators of women's rights” based in Iran, Syria, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan. The asset freezes and travel bans were introduced on International Women's Day, applying to four individuals...

Prosecutors in Burundi have charged 24 people with engaging in same-sex acts and inciting homosexuality in others, part of a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights that has been criticized by the United Nations. Police arrested 17 men and seven women as they attended a seminar organized by an HIV/AIDS charity...

The Taliban's treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan could amount to a crime against humanity, according to a UN report presented on Monday at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. "The Taliban's intentional and calculated policy is to repudiate the human rights of women and girls and to erase...

A Ugandan lawmaker on Tuesday introduced draft legislation that he said seeks to prohibit homosexuality in the East African country, voicing widespread anti-gay sentiment that has peaked in recent days. The legislator, Asuman Basalirwa, said his bill would punish “promotion, recruitment and funding”...

Protests rocked Iran again overnight Thursday after seeming to have dwindled in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The protests that have swept across Iran began last September after the death in custody of...

The Guardian has spoken to 11 protesters, women and men, who claim that they were subjected to rape, sexual violence, beatings and torture while being detained by security forces. Some say they were assaulted in a police van or on the streets; others while in custody in police stations or prisons...

Female journalists in Iran have been targeted by security forces since anti-government protests began in September, activist groups say. "We're seeing an unusual number of female journalists being arrested because what sparked the protests was the mandatory hijab law and the death of a young woman...

The 11 female foreign ministers attending the Munich Security Council have issued a joint statement condemning the efforts of Afghanistan's Taliban to "exclude women from all public life." "Women are kept from strolling in parks, are not seen on TV screens anymore, are deprived from their right to...

A special Nigerian human rights panel began investigating on Tuesday Reuters reports that the army massacred children and ran a secret abortion program when fighting Islamist insurgents and said it would refer for prosecution those it considered guilty of rights violations. The panel's chairman...

Nigeria's human rights commission has appointed a special panel whose role will include investigating a Reuters report that the military ran a secret abortion program in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the northeast. The Nigerian military said it would not carry out an investigation because...