The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday urged interim Syrian authorities to increase efforts to address 'distressing accounts' of human rights violations targeting minority groups and ...

The Australian government on Saturday announced that it had imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four senior officials of Afghanistan's Taliban-run government, in an effort to curtail the ...

President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, unveiled late Thursday, puts the Western Hemisphere at the center of US foreign policy and revives the language of the Monroe Doctrine in ...

German parliament on Friday voted to pass a bill that would allow military conscription, following rising tensions between Russia and European Union (EU) states. With 323 votes in support coming ...

UN human rights experts on Friday called on Serbia to end attacks and intimidation against journalists and urgently address ...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Friday that more than 100,000 people have fled their homes in northern Mozambique over the past two weeks as armed ...

The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide on the principle of birthright citizenship, which holds that all children born on US soil are American citizens. The principle of birthright ...

This week, President Donald Trump pardoned a man federal prosecutors described as the architect of a 'narco-state' who moved ...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned Georgia's new laws stating they effectively criminalize peaceful protest by imposing heavy fines and empowering police to detain protestors. These measures, ...

Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, a Libyan prison chief, appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday and ...

The Court of King's Bench of Alberta ruled Friday that the proposed referendum to separate the province of Alberta from Canada contravenes the Constitution Act, 1982, and citizens cannot initiate ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday stated that armed groups in Colombia's southern state of Putumayo have committed gross human rights violations against innocent civilians, with a large portion of ...