A Russian court sentenced journalist Olga Komleva to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for cooperation with the Anti-Corruption Foundation and the dissemination of false information about the Russian ...

Several United Nations (UN) agencies on Monday condemned the use of starvation as a weapon of war, as malnutrition rates in Gaza spike. During the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake taking place in ...

The US Departments of Education (DOE) and Health and Human Services (HHS) launched parallel civil rights investigations into Duke University on Monday, citing potential violations of key federal ...

A Massachusetts federal court granted a preliminary injunction on Monday in favor of Planned Parenthood, temporarily blocking the Trump administration from following through on defunding efforts in ...

A judge found former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe guilty of bribery and witness tampering on Monday. It marks the first time that a Colombian ex-president has been convicted at a criminal trial.

Drone strikes that damaged oil fields in Kurdistan, Iraq, risk escalating an ongoing dispute between the regional and ...

Amnesty International called on Pakistan's authorities on Tuesday to end the systemic discrimination and human rights violations against sanitation workers in the country, following the release of a ...

Two of Israel's best known human rights organizations stated on Monday that state policies and hostilities in Gaza and the West Bank amount to an ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Amid worsening famine conditions in Gaza, the UK on Tuesday threatened to recognize Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire and to take immediate ...

Amnesty International on Monday called on Syria to investigate the abductions and kidnappings of Alawite women and girls to prevent gender-based violence and bring perpetrators to justice. Agnès ...

Amnesty International criticized the International Criminal Court's Office of the Prosecutor on Monday for dashing the hopes of survivors of atrocities by the military in Nigeria, after failing to ...

United Nations (UN) independent experts on Monday called on Russia to end long-standing trafficking and forced labor of migrant women predominantly from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the Golyanovo ...