Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Hungary's incoming government to take immediate steps to restore fundamental rights and dismantle laws and institutions used to suppress dissent, following ...

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Brazil’s former intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem on Monday, according to a Brazilian senator, after he fled Brazil to avoid a 16-year ...

Amnesty International on Monday urged Venezuelan authorities to ensure that a newly enacted amnesty law is employed justly and impartially, following reports of its arbitrary application. The rights ...

The Trump administration fired six more immigration judges on Friday, adding to growing dismissals as judges and lawyers continue to push for a more independent judicial immigration system. The ...

UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Denise Brown, warned on Sunday that the crisis in Sudan being 'abandoned.' The global rollback of humanitarian assistance, as well as the proliferation of ...

Former Nigerian petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke on Monday denied bribery allegations in her ongoing trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, insisting she never solicited or received ...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Saturday extended a lower court's freeze on a partial preliminary injunction that had halted construction of the White House's ...

Note: This story is part of a series of coverage from the first week of the 2026 UN Women’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). Read Day 1 and Day 2. The third day of the 70th session of the ...

The Provincial legislature of Quebec passed Bill 9, an act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Quebec, into law on Thursday, April 2nd. This significantly expands Quebec's widely criticized ...

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its parent company over an article linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey ...

The UK Metropolitan Police on Saturday arrested 523 people for supporting Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation. Those arrested ranged in age from 18 to 87 years old. Hundreds of people ...

Human Rights Watch on Friday condemned the Georgian authorities for their expulsion of Azerbaijani journalist, Afgan Sadigov, to Azerbaijan, exposing him to a credible risk of politically motivated ...