A UN expert on human rights in Somalia urged the Somali government on Thursday to accelerate important reforms and strengthen ...

Amnesty International urged the new government of Syria to address the country's history of human rights abuses through 'justice, truth, and reparation' in a statement released on Friday. The rights ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Thursday that Israel's policy on Gaza is 'inch[ing] closer to extermination,' urging the international community to condemn Israel's plans and prevent further ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on European Union (EU) leaders to condemn Hungary’s proposed bill imposing far-reaching restrictions on organizations, such as ...

Amnesty International on Thursday demanded the release of book publishing professionals who have been detained in Russia during the country's 'anti-LGBTI campaign,' calling on officials to drop all ...

Shofa Umrotul H. is a student in the Faculty of Law, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia. She filed this dispatch from Malang. ...

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the life sentence handed down by a military court in Cameroon against activist ...

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student at Maharashtra National Law University in Mumbai who must remain ...

Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday proposed a bill that would impose sweeping restrictions on organizations seen as threats to ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned judicial decisions in Brazil that could exclude criminal ...

A federal judge on Tuesday stripped New York City of its control over Rikers Island jail, which will now effectively be run ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed serious concern on Monday over Egypt’s newly ...