Amnesty International's Secretary General Agnès Callamard on Monday urged UN member states to step up collective resistance against global attacks on gender justice and women's rights during the ...

A federal judge ruled Saturday that all of Kari Lake's official actions in her brief appointment as CEO of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) 'shall have no force or effect.' The motion for ...

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) released a report Friday revealing that global progress toward gender parity in national parliaments has slowed to its lowest rate in nearly a decade. Released ...

Amnesty International on Friday warned that the Israeli military’s sweeping evacuation orders across Lebanon sow panic and worsen humanitarian suffering after orders covering more than 100 locales ...

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, carrying t-shirts that read, 'Jim Crow Must Go.' He had returned ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Israel to halt the use of white phosphorus munitions, reporting its use over civilian homes in Yohmor, a southern town in Lebanon, on March 3. HRW's accusation of ...

An anti-terrorism court on Saturday sentenced in absentia 47 leaders and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan's political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to ten years imprisonment on ...

A UN expert on Friday warned of the gradual erosion of the rights of human rights defenders and activists in Sweden, amid ongoing restrictions on their ability to exercise their freedoms of ...

A group of UN experts warned Friday that the genocide in Gaza is spilling into the West Bank as a wider war engulfs the region. The experts argue that Israeli policy is designed to coerce ...

A United Nations special rapporteur warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution ...

Amnesty International on Friday condemned the recently adopted 'Criminal Procedure Regulation of the Courts' (De Mahakumu Jazaai Osulnama) in Afghanistan, citing concerns that the piece of ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday introduced a proposed rule that would establish a formal procedure for reviewing complaints and allegations of professional misconduct against ...