As returns of Afghan refugees and those living in refugee-like conditions from Iran and Pakistan increase – many forcibly – women and girls are arriving in a country where the ...

More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warn ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed on Friday in the United States capital, ...

Police have arrested five people, including a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader, for allegedly raping a Hindu woman in Bangladesh’s Comilla district on Saturday night, media ...

Dipankar Das, owner of the Bangladesh-based bookstore Baatighar, was briefly detained by the Chattogram's Kotwali police over a case filed against him in connection with the July-Augu ...

The Indian government has criticised Bangladesh for the demolition of the makeshift Durga Temple in Dhaka's Khilket area.

At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza – a likely war crime – the UN human rights off ...

A growing network of online communities known collectively as the “manosphere” is emerging as a serious threat to gender equality, as toxic digital spaces increasingly influen ...

More than 100 days into Israel’s complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on Thursday that vital services are only “hours away” ...