On May 30, the US government announced travel sanctions against five former and current Ugandan government officials, ...

In a historic decision last week, a longstanding United Nations body recognized that the international human rights system ...

Governments attending UN climate talks in Bonn from June 3 to June 13, 2024 should push for rights-respecting and ambitious ...

The European Commission should include independent civil society groups in ongoing key talks with Malaysia and Indonesia over ...

Today, the Guna Indigenous people living on the tiny, overcrowded, and flood-prone island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama will ...

Fr. Amado Picardal, a Redemptorist priest who exposed killings by the so-called Davao Death Squad in the Philippines, died on ...

The European Commission decided to close the article 7 procedure against Poland on Wednesday, despite Poland’s newly elected ...

In April, Dominica became the latest country to decriminalize consensual same-sex conduct. A local court ruled that ...

Joint Letter on Human Rights Situation to Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council ...

In a rare piece of good news for human rights and democracy in the United Kingdom, last week the High Court ruled that ...

The MSS mission is tasked with assisting Haitian police in rolling back the extreme turmoil in the country’s capital, Port-au ...

These days, a defense lawyer understands that by defending political prisoners they are not only potentially losing the right ...