Announcement comes ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to relax most COVID-19 restrictions in England on 19 July

URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY BLR 007 / 0721 / OBS 080 Search and seizure / Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment Belarus July 14, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders,

Pope Francis on Wednesday left the Rome hospital where the head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics had undergone an operation on his colon on July 4. The 84-year old was whisked away from the Gemelli University Hospital in a car with tinted windows and …

Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) and the World Organisation against Torture welcome the unanimous adoption of the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and Punishment) Bill, 2021 by the Senate of Pakistan.

Unrest raged in South Africa on Wednesday for the sixth day running, stoking fears of food and fuel shortages as disruption to farming, manufacturing and oil refining began to bite. Seventy-two people have died and more than 1,200 people have been arrested …

(Bloomberg) — A blast in a bus carrying workers in Pakistan’s northern Kohistan region killed 12 people including nine Chinese citizens, as concerns mount an advance by the Taliban in Afghanistan may disturb peace in across the region. Pakistan …

Iraq has put the total death toll in a fire that ripped through an isolation ward for coronavirus patients two days ago at 60 people, 32 lower than an earlier fatality figure. On Tuesday, health officials said 92 people had died in the blaze that broke out the previous night …

London's theatres are putting safety first

The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday strongly disapproved and firmly opposed the remarks made by the U.S.

South African taxi drivers, private security companies and ordinary civilians are stepping up to protect their businesses and communities following days of rioting and looting that the authorities have failed to quell.