The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volke Turk on Monday expressed great disturbance by the degree of police brutality during a protest in Madagascar that stirred the country due to water ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday warned that recent Chinese legislation may lead to repression of ethnic minorities and expand ideological control beyond the country's borders. The new legislation ...

The UN Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council on Monday said that over 1,000 people have been executed in Iran in 2025, warning this represented a dramatic escalation that violates ...

Fawzia Koofi is a former Afghan MP, the first ever female Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, and a veteran human rights speaker whose career embodies the fragile yet essential relationship ...

Assad's December 2024 ouster and flight to Moscow, JURIST's Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Dr. Patrick Kroker, Senior Legal Advisor in the International Crimes and ...

With a possible US government shutdown looming, a group of former national park superintendents sent a letter to the US Secretary of the Interior Thursday, urging for the closure of all national ...

Hundreds of Portland citizens gathered outside a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building Sunday to protest President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to the city over the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday condemned Tajikistan’s authorities for wrongfully imprisoning lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov for ten years and urged his release, citing politically motivated charges ...

The American Bar Association (ABA) has waded into a politically charged dispute over Justice Department independence, releasing a statement that condemned the use of government power to threaten ...

An investigating judge on Saturday announced that the Syrian authorities have issued an arrest warrant in absentia for the ousted president, Bashar al-Assad. In a statement to the state-run news ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the UN Security Council on Friday to authorize an international mission to address the ...

Sixteen plaintiffs, supported by the National Redistricting Foundation, sued the State of Missouri on Sunday, alleging that a new law redistricting federal congressional seats violates the state's ...