On June 22, 2025, a suicide bomber walked into the ancient Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church in Damascus during evening prayers, detonating an explosive vest and leaving 22 people dead and 63 wounded.

(Seoul) – Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of persecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...

The Brazilian government on Thursday apologized for human rights violations in the persecution and incarceration of Japanese immigrants in the years after World War II. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

Iran’s decadeslong persecution of members of the Baha’i faith is a “crime against humanity,” Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday. The Islamic republic’s agencies arrest and imprison ...

Persecution of Christians worldwide has increased significantly in both quantity and intensity, human rights experts in Berlin, Germany said on Wednesday (Oct. 15). Thomas Schirrmacher, president of ...

Congress’ Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission heard testimony Tuesday condemning the government of Pakistan over its treatment of Christians and other religious minorities. “Authorities’ failure to ...

Iran’s “decades-long systematic repression” of the Baha’i community “amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution,” Human Rights Watch said in a new report issued on April 1. “Iranian ...

In separate petitions dated May 17, 2026 and signed by the Chairman of CDHR Lagos, Comrade Wale Ojo, the group accused operatives of the State Intelligence Department (SID), led by ASP Austine ...

GENEVA, 5 July (BelTA) – At the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Belarus drew attention to human rights violations in Ukraine and the persecution of ethnic Belarusians in a ...

The ‘CSI’ actor and Baha’i faith member stars in ‘Cast Aside the Clouds,’ set for theatrical runs in New York and Los Angeles ...

(Bangkok) – A group of 48 Uyghur men who have been held for over a decade in Thai detention face risks of enforced disappearance, long-term imprisonment, torture, and other severe mistreatment if ...

Seventy-five percent of all people today live in a country where persecution is a part of everyday life. Shocking? Yes. But almost as shocking is the relative lack of response from North American ...