Human trafficking has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and most profitable transnational crimes, generating an estimated ...

The organization also cited the “violent repression and arbitrary arrest” of journalists as contributing to their rating for ...

Track and field’s governing body has given some clarity on its promised rules for female eligibility by setting a Sept. 1 ...

The Trump administration has requested a federal district court judge terminate existing protections that mandate basic rights and services — including safe and sanitary conditions — for children held ...

Saint Lucia now joins Belize (2016), Antigua and Barbuda (2022), St. Kitts and Nevis (2022), Barbados (2022), and Dominica (2024), which decriminalised same-sex intimacy in recent years. This ...

Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Wednesday it had blocked the internet performance tool Speedtest, run ...

The first Trump administration denounced the United Nation’s hypocrisy on human rights, withdrawing from the U.N. Human Rights Council when the call for reforming its autocracy-heavy membership was ...

He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security ...

Law firms, to their credit, have really stepped up to meet the moment, at a pro bono level,” said James Pasch, vice president ...

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change, its 15 black-robed judges weighing in ...

Approaches vary in terms of who is filing the lawsuit, against whom, and whether it is based on protecting human rights or ...

The battle for the human right to a healthy climate is raging in courts in the Global North and the Global South, and ...