According to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, 200,000 civilians stuck in three Syrian towns are in grave danger as attacking forces draw near. Opposition-controlled areas of Aleppo, following recent airstrikes...

The Supreme Court of El Salvador on Wednesday struck down the amnesty law of 1993 , opening the way for prosecution of those associated with various war crimes and crimes against humanity during the...

Following Thursday's attack in Nice, French President François Hollande has chosen to extend for three months the state of emergency, which had been set to expire on July 26. Stating that "t is the whole of...

The Arizona affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging an Arizona law they claim will "prevent low-income women from obtaining healthcare from their...

China is set to prosecute prominent human rights lawyer Zhou Shifeng on charges of subverting state power, furthering its recent crackdown on political dissidents. Zhou, who has been secretly detained for months, is the director of the...

In a report released Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) documented numerous human rights violations committed by Cameroon authorities in the country's crackdown on Boko Haram . In a military campaign that AI West and Central...

Ten additional states, including Nebraska, Michigan and Ohio, have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration for its directive for schools to allow transgender to use the restroom correlating to their gender identity. The Obama administration, through...

In a press conference held Friday in Washington, DC, Attorney General Loretta Lynch gave her response to the shooting of police in Dallas during a peaceful protest of recent police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando...

Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff Elias "Ronnie" Simmons were charged in a 24-count indictment unsealed Friday for involvement in a bogus non-profit scholarship entity. Among the charges are multiple counts of mail and wire...

In a 63-30 vote, the US Senate approved legislation Thursday requiring food packaging to display genetically-modified organism (GMO) contents using words, pictures or scannable bar codes. If passed in the House , this law would...