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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 in the case Central Unitaria de Traballadores/as v. Spain, upholding Spain's decision to ban a May Day demonstration during the height of the ...

The Nebraska Supreme Court ordered the state's Secretary of State to implement Legislative Bill (LB) 20 on Wednesday, providing for the automatic restoration of voting rights for felons in Nebraska ...