The General Secretaryof the World Council of Churches has joined other church leaders in calling for a cessation of violence in Chile and a mechanism for addressing its root causes.
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the many attacks on journalists by security forces during the past three days of anti-corruption protests in Iraq.
A UN human rights experts has called on Zimbabwe to embrace and safeguard democracy, saying that the country’s change in leadership provided an opportunity to promote political tolerance, accountability and bring an end to impunity for human rights violations.
World leaders must confront President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the UN General Assembly in New York this week and strongly condemn Egypt's crackdown on recent protests, says Amnesty International.
Humanists UK has welcomed the introduction of a new exclusion zone at Anderton Park Primary School which bans anti-LGBT protestors from taking part in or coordinating protests in an area around the school.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the detention and expulsion of two Tunisian journalists from Algeria and called on the Algerian authorities to allow the foreign press to freely cover demonstrations in the country.