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 ...

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

A coalition of several human rights organizations urged the Council of Europe on Wednesday to publish a draft statute for the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, ...

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

Refugees International (RI) stated Wednesday that it welcomes US President Donald Trump's decision to lift US sanctions on Syria, which were originally imposed to pressure the Assad regime, calling ...

Last Tuesday, 6th May, the Supreme Court of Ghana in a 3-2 majority dismissed an application by Vincent Ekow Assafuah, a member of parliament who invited the court to halt the suspension of Ghana's ...

Women's rights organizations around the world are reaching 'a breaking point' due to foreign aid cuts, according to a report published Tuesday by UN Women. The report says that a survey conducted in ...

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

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

Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressed concern Wednesday over the conviction of journalist Rukhshona Khakimova, and called on the government of ...

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

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit struck down one of the key remaining ways to enforce the federal ...