Public flogging is a common punishment for certain victimless crimes in the Aceh province. Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice as "barbaric" and called for it to end. On Thursday, an ...

MEXICO CITY — Paola Schietekat longs to return to the Middle East, where she loved working — until a dream job in Qatar was followed by a nightmarish ordeal that made her flee the country. "I couldn’t ...

Breaking news from Iran: Reza Seghati, the former hijab enforcer who famously handed out lashes to women for not following dress codes, has now been sentenced to 100 lashes and two years of exile ...

Check-ups for trachoma in a village community near Butajira - Copyright AFP Marco Simoncelli Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called ...