Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday warned of a “major offensive” against press freedom in Peru regarding actions by ...

France filed a lawsuit against Iran at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday, seeking the release of two detained French nationals. The two individuals, a modern literature teacher ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres sent a video message to the Nepalese government on Friday, warning that the Himalayan glaciers are rapidly melting and urging immediate action. Guterres ...

A Texas federal judge struck down the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) transgender employee protection policy on Thursday, stating the policy contradicts the plain text of Title ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday denounced Mali’s sweeping ban on political parties as a “draconian” violation of basic rights, warning that it could further silence ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on Jordanian authorities to reverse a sweeping ban on 12 online ...

A former supervisor of the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for covering up an assault by correctional officers that led to the death ...

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

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. The past weeks have witnessed an ...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged China to free the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choki Nyima, and his parents, who were removed from public view in 1995 and have remained missing ever since. As the ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on Nigerien officials to free three Sahara FM radio journalists who have been detained twice for covering Niger's intelligence ...

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 ...