New Zealand's parliament on Tuesday approved legislation to allow people who were previously convicted of homosexual offenses to have their criminal records wiped. The bill "seeks to reduce prejudice, stigma, and all other negative effects" that would come from a...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday rejected a claim by a number of Philadelphia taxi companies and the Philadelphia Taxi Association that Uber Technologies was violating antitrust laws. The companies were...

The Maryland Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit licensed mental health professionals from offering conversion therapy to minors. The bill passed 34-12 , with 1 senator not voting. Conversion therapy, as...

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the "Right to Try Act of 2017," which would give terminally ill patients the "right to try" unproven experimental treatments. Under the bill, the government would not be...

A UN report has identified profound human rights violations during the extended state of emergency in Turkey. The rights violated include deprivation of the right to work, torture, arbitrary detentions and infringements on the rights to freedom of...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday for its "arbitrary detention" of asylum seekers. All of the plaintiffs named in the case are asylum seekers fleeing persecution, torture or death in...

Authorities in Germany have announced the death of Oskar Groening, a former Nazi SS officer who was known as "the bookkeeper of Auschwitz." Groening was sentenced last November to four years in prison...

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour on Tuesday said that the "ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Myanmar continues," after a four-day visit to Bangladesh. During his visit, he focused on the situation of thousands...

The Florida Senate passed a bill on Monday that would raise the age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21 and require a three-day waiting period for most firearm purchases. The bill would also ban...

A UN rights expert told the Human Rights Council that states are obligated to protect human rights defenders who assist hundreds of thousands of people who are on the move each year. The term "people on the move"...