A front-runner for the 2018 Mexican Presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , filed a complaint Wednesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against US President Donald Trump's proposed border security...

A Texas Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would limit access to public restrooms to those corresponding to a person's gender as marked on their birth certificate. The bill, promoted as advocating for women's...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday against a Sudanese man who was challenging the deprivation of his UK citizenship. The man was born in Sudan and had become a naturalized citizen of...

The House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines voted Wednesday to advance a proposal to reinstate the death penalty for "drug-related heinous crimes." The legislation would impose the death penalty for several...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein reaffirmed the UN's long-standing position against the death penalty Wednesday and urged member states to end its use. In his opening statement at the biennial high-level panel...

The Supreme Court of Thailand on Thursday upheld the sentence of a former magazine editor who published stories criticizing the royal family. The court did curtail the sentence , so that Somyot Pruksakasemsuk would be released in 2018. The...

The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday that female soldiers will be allowed to wear headscarves along with their uniforms. The regulation, a break in the nation's attempt to protect its secularism , is the...

Two members of the Montenegrin parliament were stripped of their immunity Wednesday after facing accusations of involvement with an attempted coup. The lawmakers, Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic, are part of the Democratic Front (DF), a pro-Russian group...

The Stockholm District Court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian rebel fighter to life in prison for his participation in a mass execution of seven men in 2012. The defendant, who had permanent residence in Sweden, argued that...

The High Court of Kenya ruled Thursday that a government order to close the world's largest refugee camp is unconstitutional. Dadaab, a camp to more than 200,000 people, would have been forced to shut down and send its...