Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Thursday for accountability for the toxic spills that have affected children living near Lega Dembi gold mine in Ethiopia, urging the UN Committee on the Rights of ...

Amnesty International released a statement Thursday as a trial begins for activists who organized an annual vigil commemorating the protestors who were killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The ...

The Nara district court sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami on Wednesday to life in prison following his assassination of Japan's former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. He pleaded guilty to murder, having shot ...

Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday after a Seoul court found him guilty of rebellion for his role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Tuesday condemned the Russian Federation's latest large-scale attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which have caused mass power and heating outages in ...

The United Nations on Tuesday expressed deep concern about the deteriorating security situation in northeast Syria. This follows renewed violent clashes between Syrian government troops and the ...

Togo's Ministry of Justice on Tuesday confirmed the extradition of former Burkinabè transitional president Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to Burkina Faso, following accusations of ...

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The Supreme ...

Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest—was conducted in ...

A UN expert on Tuesday urged the Guatemalan government to 'take decisive steps to eliminate the instrumentalisation of its justice system once and for all,' ahead of the upcoming judicial ...

The California Republican Party filed an emergency petition to the US Supreme Court on Tuesday asking for a temporary injunction against Proposition 50, a ballot initiative passed by California ...

Amnesty International on Monday demanded that the Cuban government immediately release seven prisoners held for political reasons, and permanently cease political detentions. The rights group listed ...