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A UN-appointed panel of experts released its findings from an investigation regarding human rights violations in Burundi on Thursday. According to the experts, these human rights violations include illegal executions, torture, inhumane treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary...

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that the Arizona Department of Corrections' (ADC) outgoing mail policy calling for a "page-by-page content review" of inmates' confidential...

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the family of a man who committed suicide while in solitary confinement can argue that he faced cruel and unusual punishment, even if they don't argue...

South Africa on Tuesday informed the UN that it is canceling its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . South Africa's decision to cancel the withdrawal comes in response to the South African High...

South Africa's High Court on Wednesday blocked the government's attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . High Court Judge Phineas Mojapelo found that the "decision by the national executive to deliver the notice...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday welcomed The Gambia's decision to remain in the International Criminal Court (ICC) . According to a statement Guterres issued through a spokesperson, he "welcomes that The Gambia will remain a State Party...

New Gambian President Adama Barrow has confirmed through a top EU official that The Gambia will remain in the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Neven Mimica , the EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development,...

African nations should not abandon the International Criminal Court (ICC) , UN Special Adviser Adama Dieng urged in an editorial Monday. Dieng, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, wrote in...

Responding to mounting actions by President Pierre Nkurunziza , UN human rights experts condemned on Monday governmental hostility towards non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights defenders. The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights...

The UK Ministry of Justice released figures Thursday demonstrating a record number of suicides and other deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016. Many experts and politicians have attributed the findings...