Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Chinese authorities to "end their ruthless assault against human rights lawyers and activists." This call to Chinese officials comes just before the one-year anniversary of a massive police crackdown [AI...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday rejected an appeal by the Attorney General of Canada asking the court to review a lower court decision instructing the country to reconsider revocation of a former-Nazi's Canadian citizenship....
The German parliament unanimously passed a law Thursday expanding the definition of sex crimes, making any form of nonsensical sexual contact a crime. The new "no means no" law protects victims of...
Poland's Parliament approved a bill Thursday that would unblock the Constitutional Tribunal, which has been the subject of controversy since last year. The measure was introduced by the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and passed 238-173 in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of controversial anti-terror bills on Thursday. These bills were drafted earlier this year as a response to the 2015 attacks in Paris and the bombing of an A-231 jet liner...
A federal judge in Buenos Aires froze the assets of former Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Wednesday. The action comes in association with the charge against de Kirchner for fraudulently manipulating the economy during her...
The Obama administration imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Wednesday, taking the unusual step of placing the country's leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other officials on a blacklist for human rights abusers. The sanctions would bar...
Britain's leading public-interest law firm as well as several experience litigators are drafting a legal challenge to the EU referendum . The hope is to stop Britain's exit from the EU, or, at the very least, create a parliamentary...
Armed opposition groups are committing war crimes in Syria, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday. While the report acknowledges that many violations of international human rights law have been committed by...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned Sunday's suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. Stating that "the sheer unrestrained viciousness of these people defies belief," Zeid spoke strongly...