Amnesty International is urging Sudan's military rulers to hand over longtime autocrat Omar Al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for war crimes and genocide linked to the Darfur conflict. Amnesty's statement Friday – just two days before al-Bashir is to go on trial...

Human Rights Watch is urging authorities in eastern Libya to exert "all possible efforts" to ensure the safe return of a female lawmaker abducted from her home last month by armed men. The lawmaker, Seham Sirqiwa, is a prominent critic of Khalifa Hifter, whose forces are now fighting to...

Princess Christina, youngest sister of Beatrix who ruled the Netherlands till her abdication in 2013, died Friday aged 72 after suffering from bone cancer, the royal family announced. Born nearly blind in 1947, Maria Christina, princess of Orange-Nassau, was the fourth daughter of Queen...

A group of UN human rights experts on Friday called for the immediate release of three Iranian women given long jail terms for protesting laws compelling women to wear veils. The trio were charged after a video posted online showed them handing out flowers on Tehran's metro on March 8,...