Hearings began on Monday in a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) , with Ukraine asking the ICJ to bar Russia from "any action which might aggravate" the contentious border conflict between the two nations....

The US State Department on Friday released its annual report on the current human rights situation across the world. This report has been published annually since the mid-1970s and has usually been accompanied by a press conference,...

In response to the mass execution of 15 people in Jordan on Saturday, several human rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) , condemned the hanging as being secretive and conducted "without transparency. This mass execution was...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday rebuffed calls for international judges to participate in the country's war crimes tribunals. The president, who has been suspicious of war crimes allegations raised by the Tamil...

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović, urged the government of Australia on Friday to include all women in the fight to stop violence against women. According to Šimonović, violence against women in Australia is at...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Friday that Sri Lanka has made slow progress towards establishing transitional justice. According to the report, while various ad hoc bodies of justice have...

Two UN rights experts called Friday for the Israeli government to discontinue policies that constrain human rights defenders. UN Special Rapporteurs Michael Lynk and Michel Forst say the increased restrictions, which primarily affect advocates in the...

A UN cultural rights expert presented a report to the Human Rights Council on Friday expressing concern over the normalization of extreme rhetoric in politics, culture and media all over the globe. In presenting her report,...

Ikponwosa Ero , the UN's first Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism , called Friday for the "enhanced oversight" of traditional healers to ensure that they do not use...

The Pakistani Cabinet on Thursday approved a five-year plan yesterday to bring political reforms to the tribal areas of the country. The cabinet accepted the recommendations of the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Reforms Committee to...