The head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Sunday reported that the Government of the Republic of South Sudan has expelled a UN human rights investigator from the country. South Sudan reportedly ejected UN...

A body of UN independent experts submitted its report to the General Assembly on Friday regarding specific groups of individuals whose human rights are put at risk by transnational business activities. The Working Group on...

Hundreds of Sri Lankan lawyers and citizens took to the streets of Colombo on Monday to protest the impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake , the chief justice and lone woman on the country's Supreme Court. The protesters waved placards...

A moratorium has been enacted on Malawi's laws barring same-sex marriage and homosexuality, Malawi Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara announced on Monday. According to him, the laws were suspended to enable to the country...

The US Depatment of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit opposing a ruling rejecting the government's argument that...

Amnesty International (AI) detailed abuses against female prisoners committed by Iran officials on Thursday and called on the government to investigate the alleged mistreatment that prompted a group of prisoners to go on a hunger...

The UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) , Marzuki Darusman, expressed concern on Friday about the lack of development in human...

Acapulco Mayor Luis Walton Aburto announced on Friday that he will be firing 500 of the city's police officers after they failed a test used to weed out corrupt officers. The city currently has only...

Former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was released from a US federal prison on Thursday and, according to a spokeswoman for US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , will go before an immigration...

A judge for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled on Thursday that the state of Pennsylvania may continue to display advertisements touting its voter ID law even though the court prevented the law from taking...