The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday called on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, warning that the restriction ...

A coalition of rights groups and families of victims from the deadly 2020 Beirut explosion released an open letter on Friday urging Lebanon's new government to strengthen judicial independence and ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday it will terminate the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole programs, ending a key immigration pathway that will ...

The Italian Constitutional Court held Friday that the law barring single-parents from adopting foreign children is unconstitutional. The matter was referred to the top court following the 2019 ...

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) condemned Friday the rising death toll on civilians in Sudan. The statement follows the ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday reported that the prolonged hostilities and ...

Return of the Torture Monsters: Here We Go Again  Recently, the ACLU highlighted one of the torture architects of our past.

In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights, and gender equality. While international ...

Amnesty International condemned the EU on Thursday for refusing to condemn Israel's recent airstrikes in Gaza, calling it 'another shameful attempt to justify Israel's genocide and war crimes ...

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine concluded on Wednesday that Russia’s widespread use of enforced disappearances and torture during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

Amnesty International warned against a 'chilling verdict' returned by a North Dakota jury on Thursday in a lawsuit against Greenpeace. The verdict orders Greenpeace, an environmental advocacy ...

In a 137-page ruling, the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Thursday blocking Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from ...