After years of reported abuses, including beatings, rapes, and deaths, Kenyan officials are now instructing domestic workers sent to the Middle East on their rights. According to authorities,23 such incidents have been reported so far this year, most of which have occurred in Saudi Arabia
Bangladesh’s decision to shut down a leading human rights group that documented alleged extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances will have a “chilling effect,” the United Nations said Friday, a day after 11 rights advocacy organizations jointly raised similar concerns
Pu Wenqing, the mother of jailed rights activist Huang Qi, says her cancer is spreading from her lungs to her liver, and has called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to allow her to visit her son in prison before she dies
Reports of ethnic cleansing and mass detention of Tigrayans have surfaced throughout Ethiopia’s civil war, particularly in the western Tigray region, where authorities have prevented rights groups and media from entering. VOA was granted rare but restricted access to the region, including several alleged detention and mass grave sites
Bayraktar the police dog just outside Ukranian capital Kyiv,has become famous for helping to keep safe the people he loves, just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital
Thailand partially decriminalized cannabis as of Thursday, allowing users to possess, consume and grow low-potency plants, but it discouraged smoking the weed in public by attaching a hefty fine and jail sentence for those who are a nuisance while lighting up
A Uyghur student who had attended university in southeastern China was arrested last December during an internship in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region and sentenced up to five years in prison, his family told RFA
Mozambique’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Verónica Nataniel Macamo Dlhovo, speaks to reporters after the country was elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for the years 2023-2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced questions from student journalists on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, including why the US deals with countries like Saudi Arabia, which is accused of killing journalists, while condemning others like Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela for threatening press freedom
Prominent Tibetan writer and scholar Rongwo Gangkar, who went missing more than a year ago, has been confirmed arrested by Chinese authorities, RFA’s Tibetan Service has learned