A total of 24,826 enjoy the amnesty  

'I've been waiting for this day for so long,' the man says of his exoneration

He was in jail for six years until a teenager took responsibility for the killing in 1975, but it has...

Vietnam is among 23 countries supporting the 47-member Human Rights Council's resolution

Vietnamese children are believed to be the largest group of children trafficked to the UK

  "The Chinese side has already fully expressed our position on the relevant Canadian reporter asking a question," China's Foreign...

Some U.N. members urged the military to review controversial laws, such as a royal insults law, that rights groups...

Nine students were sold to China from April 2014 for a total of $18,000, police said

The prostitutes had to pay them 55-70 percent of their earnings plus a $9 daily fee, or face beatings

They suffer gang rapes by clients and beatings by pimps, end up with sadists and are shunned by their own...

  The jihadist group carries out abductions, rapes, beheadings and stonings in the areas under its influence.

  A large explosion hit a building in northern Syria, which is held by the ultra-hardline Islamic State.

A few, however, do not want public attention because they are working discretely

There are at least 11,240 sex workers in Vietnam and many have been abused due to a lack of...

Some prisons award well-behaved inmates 24 hours with their family in aptly named 'happy houses'