In a one-sentence order issued Tuesday afternoon, the US Supreme Court blocked a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the matter of Trump v. Hawaii , thereby allowing the administration's travel ban...

Eric Dreiband, a partner at Jones Day and former top attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to answer questions as he seeks confirmation as the head...

Widespread human rights violations continue in war-torn Syria despite a decrease in fighting between warring parties, according to a report released Wednesday by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, an investigatory branch of...

A 26-year-old Mexican immigrant in New York has amended his ongoing lawsuit against the US government to challenge the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program . Batalla Vidal, who initially...

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga , whose campaign against the incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was declared unsuccessful after a countrywide election last month by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Committee (IEBC) , has issued a statement...

Two human rights experts with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement Wednesday detailing their concern over websites, including many news sites, that have been shutdown or blocked by...

A judge in Brazil issued a ruling Wednesday that temporarily blocks an executive order from President Michel Temer that would have opened large sections of the Amazon forest...

In an open letter addressed to representatives of the Member and Observer States of the United Nations Humans Rights Council , 56 national, regional and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) called for an "independent, international inquiry" into violations of...

A federal judge in Louisiana ruled against the state on Tuesday in a constitutional challenge to a law that requires naturalized citizens who were born outside the US to present a valid birth certificate from their home...

Five unnamed transgender military servicemembers filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and various officials in his administration on Wednesday, claiming the president's declaration on Twitter that transgender individuals would no...