UN human rights experts are called on global leaders Friday to take urgent action on air pollution to ensure world citizens enjoy what the UN calls "the human rights to life and health in environments free from...
The UN Special Rapporteur for North Korean human rights, Tomas Ojea Quintana , is urging the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the UN member states to bring human rights violations committed by North Korea before the International Criminal...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday dismissed charges against Im Chaem, a Buddhist nun suspected of playing a role in the Khmer Rouge regime. The judges in the case said they...
The French National Assembly approved a law on Tuesday that would make French parent corporations liable for human rights violations committed by their subsidiary companies located anywhere in the world. Parent corporations subject to the...
UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan Aristide Nononsi on Wednesday called for the Sudanese government to protect civilian rights in Darfur . Since 2003 the region has faced...
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday released its Annual Report 2016/17 , a summary of an international human rights survey that discusses the role "rhetoric of fear, blame and hate" have played in rolling back human rights around the...
The Supreme Court of Thailand on Thursday upheld the sentence of a former magazine editor who published stories criticizing the royal family. The court did curtail the sentence , so that Somyot Pruksakasemsuk would be released in 2018. The...
The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday that female soldiers will be allowed to wear headscarves along with their uniforms. The regulation, a break in the nation's attempt to protect its secularism , is the...
The Brazil federal senate on Wednesday confirmed President Michel Temer's nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat, Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes, a 49-year-old lawyer, professor and current justice minister, was...
The German state of Bavaria on Tuesday approved a ban on full-face veils in certain public spaces, including universities, schools, government workplaces and while driving. Asserting that facial expressions are important to communication, Bavarian...