The UN Human Rights Council’s Syria Commission of Inquiry (COI) announced on Friday that it has completed an in-country mission to Damascus as it prepares to brief the Human Rights Council in Geneva ...

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 ...

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 Supreme Court of Canada ruled by an 8-1 majority on Friday that Quebec's subsidized daycare regulation discriminated against women refugee claimants. The ruling requires Quebec to include ...

The most striking aspect of the Trump administration’s legal argument for the attack on Iran is that, in practical terms, it simply does not exist. When President Donald Trump announced that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

European Union countries on Thursday approved a legally binding target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, as compared to 1990 levels. The new target is an amendment to the ...

Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai will not appeal his national security conviction or the accompanying 20-year prison sentence, according to one of his lawyers and a Friday ...

Amnesty International warned on Wednesday that concerns remain over the criminalization of human rights defender Fidel Zavala in El Salvador, urging authorities to drop the unfounded criminal ...

Indonesia announced on Friday a new policy banning social media and online platforms for children under the age of 16, aiming to protect youth from online abuse. Under the new regulation, existing ...