The UN Human Rights Council established on Friday an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of inquiry into atrocities committed by all parties to the armed conflict in the eastern Democratic ...

Amnesty International on Friday expressed deep concern over the recent amendment to Article 248 of El Salvador's constitution, warning that the change could drastically undermine human rights ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed concern on Friday over the recent escalation of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly in North Kivu and ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on countries Friday to urgently repatriate their nationals from Syrian detainment camps, where thousands remain trapped in life-threatening conditions. The ...

The Swedish government announced on Friday its plans to tighten the nation's gun laws after 11 people were killed in a mass shooting at the Campus Risbergska adult school in Örebro earlier in the ...

Amnesty International on Friday welcomed Israel's release of Palestinian humanitarian 'aid worker and prisoner of conscience,' Mohammad al-Halabi. Amnesty referred to Mohammad al-Halabi's ...

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced on Friday that the City and County of San Francisco is co-leading a lawsuit ...

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's lawyer Faisal Chaudry was arrested on Friday after using derogatory language ...

Amnesty International denounced Tunisian authorities' increased arrests of LGBTI individuals on Thursday. The organization reported that at least 84 individuals, mostly gay men and transgender ...

Trump administration issued an executive order on Thursday aimed at addressing concerns over government actions perceived as hostile to Christianity. Specifically, the order asserts that previous ...

The Australian government enacted a new law banning the display of hate symbols and mandating minimum sentences for certain terror offences on Thursday, as part of a broader effort to curb the surge ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday for their alleged failure to uphold ...