The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on Jordanian authorities to reverse a sweeping ban on 12 online ...

A UN expert on human rights in Somalia urged the Somali government on Thursday to accelerate important reforms and strengthen ...

A former supervisor of the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for covering up an assault by correctional officers that led to the death ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on Nigerien officials to free three Sahara FM radio journalists who have been detained twice for covering Niger's intelligence ...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged China to free the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendun Choki Nyima, and his parents, who were removed from public view in 1995 and have remained missing ever since. As the ...

Amnesty International urged the new government of Syria to address the country's history of human rights abuses through 'justice, truth, and reparation' in a statement released on Friday. The rights ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Thursday that Israel's policy on Gaza is 'inch[ing] closer to extermination,' urging the international community to condemn Israel's plans and prevent further ...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for preliminary injunction in favor of the American Bar Association (ABA) on Wednesday, temporarily blocking the Trump ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on European Union (EU) leaders to condemn Hungary’s proposed bill imposing far-reaching restrictions on organizations, such as ...

Amnesty International on Thursday demanded the release of book publishing professionals who have been detained in Russia during the country's 'anti-LGBTI campaign,' calling on officials to drop all ...

Shofa Umrotul H. is a student in the Faculty of Law, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia. She filed this dispatch from Malang. ...

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the life sentence handed down by a military court in Cameroon against activist ...