An Afghan women's group is welcoming the decision by the International Criminal Court to arrest Taliban leaders for their ...

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.

Bianca Jagger, Wild Swans author Jung Chang and former minister Andrew Mitchell join calls for the release of the Myanmar ...

Bangkok: An ethnic minority armed group alleged on Sunday that a Myanmar government airstrike killed 28 people, including children, and injured 25 at a temporary detention camp in western Rakhine ...

Southeast Asian foreign ministers gathered Sunday for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, ...

A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the ...

BANGKOK - In an uneven year for democracy and rights globally the Asia-Pacific region saw some encouraging signs Human Rights Watch says in its World ...

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from Myanmar’s brutal dictatorship ...

A devastating sentence was handed down to Seylihan Rozi, a 49-year-old Uyghur woman from Kashgar Konasheher county. She been sentenced to 17 years in a Xinj ...

China's embassy in Myanmar on Friday urged Chinese nationals to be vigilant against telecom and online fraud after multiple reports of citizens being lured to Myanmar's border town of Myawaddy by ...

BANGKOK--A Japanese freelance journalist detained by Myanmar security forces on April 18 is believed to have been transferred to a prison. Yuki Kitazumi, 45, was detained at his home in Yangon ...