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

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

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

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

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

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

A panel of the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals struck down on Wednesday one of the key remaining ways to enforce the federal ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...