The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday unsealed a 14-count indictment charging 17 Iranians connected to the Mabna ...

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Wednesday unanimously expanded the scope of the landmark Maria da Penha Law (Law 11.340/2006), ensuring women are protected from gender-based violence not ...

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (UN Commission) reported Thursday that a rise in violence and atrocity crimes is disrupting South Sudan's conflict resolution trajectory as the ...

The human rights watchdog Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) released a report on Tuesday finding that forced labor persists on sugarcane plantations in the Dominican Republic (DR). CAL called for ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk raised concerns Wednesday about arrests and detentions of opposition members surrounding Zambia's elections on August 13. Türk stated that 'arrests and resulting ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday condemned the US for its latest sanctions against Tomoko Akane, the president of the court, and Abdoulaye Seye, senior trial lawyer at the Office ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced that it opened an investigation into the College of William & Mary ...

On Tuesday, August 11, after 22 years without an execution in Lebanon, the country's parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, making it the first Arab country to formally scrap capital ...

Law does not exist only in statutes, regulations, and court decisions. Before law reaches courts, it already exists in ...

Latin American and Caribbean governments convened Tuesday for a three-day UN conference on population and development, ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday again declined to hear President Donald Trump's petition to appeal the sexual assault and ...

On July 29, the Malaysian government announced that around 5,000 Rohingya refugees will be repatriated to Myanmar, where they ...