D. Parvaz

Washington, DC - Two journalists who say they have been targeted by the United States have filed a complaint …

Kabul, Afghanistan - The pain etched on refugee faces on Greek and Turkish shores does not remain there. For …

CREDIT: Photo courtesy of Baaz Muhammad Kakar, via D. Parvaz On Saturday, Baaz Muhammad Kakar left the coasta…

Facts Around 20,000 Afghans applied for refugee status last year There are roughly 1,000,000 internally displ…

Kabul, Afghanistan - Sitting in an underground coffee shop in the heart of Kabul, Akhtar tried to describe th…

Until recently, the victims were the ones being arrested, while those who purchase them got off easy. Our ser…

Although the majority of the news coverage given to the refugee and migrant crisis focuses on the perilous jo…

Mohammed el Gharani was around 11 years old and living with his parents in Saudi Arabia, helping them herd go…

In its response a brief filed by a physicians' group asking that the doctor who botched Clayton Lockett's Apr…

Last year's Ebola outbreak, which killed over 4,000 people in West Africa, continues to leave its mark even o…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) declared Thursday that Australia's policy of offshore detention is a "disaster" for …

As of the start of 2015, there were 3,109 inmates on death row in the U.S. If they lose their legal appeals o…

BEIRUT - At a meeting of domestic workers in the Wata El Msaytbeh neighborhood on a sleepy Sunday, 20 women f…

A rights group estimates that thousands of children are working in Ghana's gold mines, violating internationa…

A spike in executions carried out in Saudi Arabia over the last few months has reportedly seen at least 90 pe…

DOHA, Qatar - A United Nations Congress on crime and justice that takes place once every five years is precis…

The rights of laborers on Sadiyaat Island in the United Arab Emirates have not improved six years after Human…

Rights activists inside and outside Indonesia have expressed alarm after the country executed six people in J…

Australia's highest court ruled Wednesday that the country's detention of asylum seekers at sea last June was…

When Egyptian authorities arrested 51-year-old government employee Mahmoud Abd al-Rahman a year ago and accus…

Stanley Cohen has made a career out of defending rights activists, people living on the margins of society an…

A Washington, D.C., district court judge has issued a timetable for when the government should release record…

Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old United Kingdom-Iranian citizen, has been in prison in Tehran since June 29 af…

A line up of powerful politicos recently called on governments across the globe to regulate illegal narcotics…