The Arizona affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging an Arizona law they claim will "prevent low-income women from obtaining healthcare from their...
China is set to prosecute prominent human rights lawyer Zhou Shifeng on charges of subverting state power, furthering its recent crackdown on political dissidents. Zhou, who has been secretly detained for months, is the director of the...
The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Thursday claiming that an estimated 9,300 people in Ukraine. including 2,000civilians, have been killed since the beginning of the separatist conflict in 2014. The...
In a report released Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) documented numerous human rights violations committed by Cameroon authorities in the country's crackdown on Boko Haram . In a military campaign that AI West and Central...
The Gloucester County School Board in Virginia filed an emergency application Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to block a ruling in favor of a Virginia transgender student. The application, filed to Chief Justice...
Local groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Baton Rouge Police Department for violating the First Amendment rights of protestors who were peacefully protesting the police killing of...
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) war crimes defendant Goran Hadzic , the former president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina during the Croatian War of Independence , died Tuesday from...
The European Union's highest court released an advisory opinion Wednesday stating that Asma Bougnaoui, a French Muslim woman who lost her job in 2009 for wearing a head scarf, was unlawfully discriminated against. The opinion found that...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that Microsoft is not required to hand over customers' e-mails held overseas to the Department of Justice (DOJ) . The case was...
Hundreds of Egyptians have been abducted and tortured by Egypt's National Security Agency during a crackdown on political activists and protesters, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. Authorities have denied the accusations, but individuals have been prosecuted...