A Rhode Island district judge ruled on Thursday that US President Donald Trump's administration must fund the Supplemental ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) rendered a decision in absentia on Thursday confirming 39 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes against Ugandan military leader Joseph Kony, thus ...

European Union environment ministers approved a revised 2040 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions target on Wednesday, after marathon negotiations that stretched into the early hours. The decision comes ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday that Cambodian authorities arbitrarily arrested and charged up to 16 individuals for expressing opinions on border tensions with Thailand earlier this ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Oxfam America released a statement on Wednesday calling attention to the millions of Americans who may lose affordable health insurance if Congress refuses to extend ...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a policy to move forward that prevents nonbinary and transgender people from having gender markers on their passports that align with their chosen identity.

A US federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide better conditions for detainees in an Chicago immigration facility. Judge Robert Gettleman of the ...

Amnesty International on Thursday raised concern over existing barriers to abortion access compounded by alarming attempts to roll back reproductive rights in Europe. The warning came in a ...

UN experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, on Tuesday cautioned that a pending amendment to Peru's General Law on Persons with Disabilities risks ...

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, D.C. Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The US ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday denounced France's short-term residency system as a systemic violation of human rights as it traps migrant workers in a cycle of discrimination, leaving them ...

A coalition of California voters and the state's Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the legality of Proposition 50's congressional redistricting maps. The lawsuit argues ...