Burkina Faso's military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has told his compatriots to forget about democracy.

Thanks to sustained advocacy, campaigning, community organising and litigation, female genital mutilation is in retreat across most of the countries where it is practised.

Iran is executing an average of two people a day.

The latest World Cup has been thrilling.

Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala's presidency in 2023 with a mandate to dismantle the 'pact of the corrupt', the coalition of business, military and political interests that's captured the justice system to ensure impunity.

For a movement that spent decades measuring its progress in newly recognised rights, the 2026 Pride season is telling a harder story.

Datacentre construction is accelerating as tech companies race to meet the insatiable AI demand for computing power.

Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has won Peru's presidential runoff, narrowly defeating leftist Roberto Sánchez to become the country's ninth president in a decade.

Tunisia's President Kais Saied has turned the country's criminal justice system into a weapon of political control, jailing civil society staff, human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents for the crime of criticising him.

Five new non-permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council have recently been chosen.