Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 10 human rights organizations, on Thursday, urged the government of the Republic of Maldives to withdraw its plans to end its death penalty moratorium and introduce ...

Amnesty International and Human Rights First published their first joint letter to Irish officials on Thursday, urging an end to the US administration’s use of Shannon Airport for unlawful ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) released on Thursday a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted platform, HungerMap Live, designed to monitor global famine crises and provide an advanced warning ...

Israel’s new death penalty law is one of the most discriminatory pieces of execution legislation that the world has witnessed ...

A US federal jury Wednesday found Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster violated multiple federal antitrust laws, determining the companies held an illegal monopoly over the live ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Wednesday in support of a group in Zambia that has called for the African Union to take steps to clean up a mine site that has caused child ...

UN experts on Thursday insisted on accountability for trafficking allegations contained in the Epstein files, warning that disclosures emerging from the documents indicate that the systemic ...

On Tuesday, Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, spoke at the fifth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, where he described reparations as 'key to ...

Amnesty International applauded on Wednesday the Italian government's suspension its decades-long defense agreement with Israel, due to growing opposition to the Israeli military operations in the ...

A group of UN independent experts on Wednesday denounced the assassination of human rights advocate Zweli 'Khabazela' Mkhize, and urged South Africa to hold perpetrators accountable. The experts, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday that Chinese authorities are increasing their pressure on 'underground' Catholic communities to join the state-controlled church. The recent ...

Maine's legislature on Tuesday passed a temporary moratorium on the construction of large data centers through November 1, 2027, making Maine the first state in the US to impede facility expansion ...