The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined forces with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the National Immigration Law Center , and Jenner and Block, LLP on Thursday in filing a petition for mandamus and complaint for injunctive and...

At a Department of Justice (DOJ) briefing on Friday Attorney General Jeff Sessions condemned the "staggering number of leaks" of "sensitive government information" and threatened to investigate and prosecute anyone who carries out...

The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale issued a joint statement on Friday apologizing to former Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr for violating his rights under the...

UN member states voted 122-1 Friday to adopt the first ever multilateral legally binding treaty on nuclear disarmaments. The one vote against the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came...

Japan's House of Councillors passed a law on Friday permitting 83-year-old Tsugu Akihito to become the first emperor since Emperor Kokaku in 1817 to abdicate his throne, clearing the way for his son, the...

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Fatou Bensouda , on Thursday renewed her calls to the UN Security Council and the international community to support her office's efforts in tackling impunity and...

UN Secretary-General (UN SG) António Guterres on Friday appointed UK's Mark Lowcock as Under-Secretary-General (USG) in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and as Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC). Lowcock...

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that there are "systemic failures, such as unreasonable delays in care and unqualified medical staff leading to "dangerously subpar" medical care in US immigration detention centers. The...

Former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee on Monday stating that she had warned about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's vulnerabilities to blackmail by Russia less than a week after President Donald...

The state of Arkansas on Thursday held the execution of Ledell Lee, the first in the state in 11 years. The sentence was carried out following the denial earlier that day by the US Supreme Court [official...