The 45-year-old Oakland woman was charged with felony counts of child abuse and causing corporal injury to a child, as well ...

Oakland woman arrested after alleged extension-cord whipping of her 9-year-old; court records show felony charges.

Young women in postrevolutionary Iran used audacious acts of public dance, particularly during the past decade, to resist ...

Botswana's constitution is said to be gender neutral, guaranteeing equal protection under the law, yet a clause in the Penal Code under the Customary Courts Act still allows judicial caning for men ...

For six months, aged 14, she barely left the red and white building in a remote Chinese village where instructors tried to ...

Singapore’s government has announced that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes starting December 30. The ...

Emily Koski and her successor-elect, Jamison Whiting, have sought protection in court. Other officials have similar stories.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has expressed concern at what it sees as failing human rights leadership from Western democracies and the ...

The South Australian government has committed more than $600 million over a decade to reduce the prevalence of — and protect ...

After several quiet years brought on by the pandemic, Tingting’s List: The Elegant Filipinas returned with a grand relaunch at the Makati Shangri-La that gathered some of the country’s most ...

Former Hong Kong prison inmates have told of inhumane and degrading conditions in new research published today by Amnesty ...