The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan on Friday expressed concern regarding the human cost associated with the resumption of the armed conflict in the country, following the discovery of ...

Amnesty International called for the immediate withdrawal of India's proposed digital media amendments on Thursday, warning that the new rules would grant the government 'abusive powers' to censor ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Singaporean authorities are scheduled on Thursday to execute a man convicted of importing just over a kilogram of cannabis across the country's border in a case that has drawn urgent condemnation ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...