A recent announcement by the Health Ministry of Vietnam on Monday asks for medical workers to stop discriminating against LGBT people in what many activists in the country see as a win for LGBT rights.

As the Taliban enjoys Afghanistan by riding pedal boats across the lake of Band-e Amir National Park, women's rights across the country are being curtailed.

The Taliban has been accused of torturing two local journalists as many fear that freedom of the press in Afghanistan will not be upheld by the new government.

Seasoned actress Angelina Jolie has finally broken her silence, voicing out her frustrations with ex-husband Brad Pitt for signing contracts with disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein despite Jolie's claims that the man had sexually assaulted her when she was 21 years old.

As fears grow within Afghanistan over the treatment of women in the country, many have taken to the streets to demand women's rights be upheld by the new government.

American actress Angelina Jolie has continued to leverage her popularity to advocate for human rights and women empowerment, recently joining Instagram to highlight Afghanistan's ongoing crisis amid the emergence of Taliban rule following the withdrawal of U.S. military troops in the country.

A gay man in Florianópolis has been viciously gang-raped and tortured by unidentified assailants in a "barbaric" act of violence, drawing flak from the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign into law a counterterrorism act that will grant the administration a far-reaching leeway to expand its campaigns against groups and individuals tagged as terrorists.

A woman from North Korea is facing a possible jail term after failing to save the portraits of Kim Jong Il and other photos of the communist country’s past and present leaders during a house fire.

It's been two years since the Ayotzinapa students kidnapping and disappearance, and a lot of questions are still unanswered.

2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Berta Cáceres, has been assassinated in Honduras.

In the first quarter of 2014 allegations of sexual abuse against minors in Mexico increased compared to 2013,

Mexican activists, former militia leaders and civil-society groups met in Mexico City to talk about ways that citizens can organize to provide services from public security to safe passage for migrants to poverty relief in regions where government is often absent.

Human Rights Watch found that security forces often shouted political epithets at opposition protesters, suggesting that the "severe physical and psychological abuse" undergone by some protesters and detainees was likely punishment for their perceived views.

UN Secretary of State Ban Ki-moon has called for the government of Nicolas Maduro to listen to the demands made by the protesters

Madonna has lashed out at Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on Instagram saying "Apparantly Maduro is not familiar with the phrase "Human Rights"!

Amnesty International says in a new report that the Peña Nieto administration in Mexico has "gone in the wrong direction" on human rights.