Amnesty International criticized on Wednesday Haiti's government for failing to protect its citizens following a deadly gang attack that took place in the town of Petite-Rivière. 'This crime once ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Hungarian authorities on Wednesday to immediately drop all espionage charges against investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi. Panyi is an investigative ...

Casinos in Cambodia operate free from state intervention despite being linked to human rights abuses, warned Amnesty International on Thursday. The human rights organization said at least a dozen ...

As seven protesters and dissidents in Iran face imminent execution after four men were reportedly secretly and arbitrarily executed within 24 hours, Amnesty International on Tuesday called for ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned on Wednesday that repression of freedom of expression across the Middle East has deepened significantly since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran commenced. In ...

A US appeals court on Wednesday rejected an initiative proposed by the Trump administration which would have cut millions of dollars from permanent housing funds for the homeless and instead shifted ...

Migrant workers in Gulf countries face heightened political, social and economic risks from violence caused by the ongoing Middle East conflict, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Wednesday. Michael ...

Australia's online safety regulator on Tuesday raised concerns over several major social media platforms' compliance with the country's social media ban for minors, warning that it is currently ...

At dawn in Iran, the state speaks in the language it knows best: silence and secrecy. This week, as global attention fixed on the escalating confrontation between Washington and Tehran, the Islamic ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Tuesday condemning the US's use of lethal force outside of armed conflict areas in recent months. HRW said international law makes a clear ...

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

A coalition of United Nations (UN) experts on Tuesday issued a press release calling for Taliban authorities to immediately lift their ban on Afghan women entering UN premises, calling the policy a ...