Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Horrific scenes saw over 160 women raped and children dead in fires after the prison break at Munzenze near Goma last Monday ...

Over 150 women were raped and killed during a mass jailbreak in Congo's Goma, as inmates set fire to the prison. The incident ...

The U.N. human rights chief said on Friday that he was deeply disturbed by the escalating crisis in eastern Congo, urging all ...

US government sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) would undermine international accountability for the ...

THE Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) welcomes the renewal of the International Decade for People of African Descent by the ...

Congo jailbreak footage shows prisoners fleeing as smoke billowed in the background, with heavy gunfire ringing out.

Killings and mass rape are unfortunately frequent scenes of conflict-related sexual violence that have plagued the Democratic ...

An Israeli military court sentenced a soldier to seven months in prison after he admitted to "severely abusing" Palestinians ...

The U.N. has published a report carrying testimonies from North Korean defectors about their home country's heightened surveillance of citizens for possession of outside information and subsequent ...

The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, says an Israeli ban on his institution has not ...