In the grand halls of the United Nations, where the fate of nations is debated, an increasingly urgent conversation is taking ...

Three tobacco companies proposed on Thursday to pay $32.5 billion to settle legal claims in Canada, stemming from decades of ...

The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily halted the execution of Robert Roberson, who was scheduled to be put to death ...

A Georgia grand jury Thursday charged a father and son for a school shooting that killed two students and two teachers. The ...

The Supreme Court of Canada, in a 5-4 majority, ruled on Friday that judges do not have the discretion to impose a driving prohibition order when an offender is convicted of criminal negligence ...

Friday demanding due process guarantees at a key hearing for Guatemalan journalist Jose Rubén Zamora. The hearing is scheduled for ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting gender transition ...

The Polish government introduced a draft law aiming to allow civil unions under Polish law on Friday. The law would reverse Poland's current ban on civil partnerships and failure to recognize civil ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Italy did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights ...

An audit by the state of New York released Tuesday found the state's Division of Human Rights (DHR) failed to investigate ...

More than three years since the military takeover by Taliban in 2021, Afghanistan remains engulfed in a severe human rights crisis. Extrajudicial killings, public executions, flogging in stadiums, ...

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has accused Russia of systematically torturing prisoners of war (POWs), with up to 90 percent of returned Ukrainian soldiers reporting abuse during their ...