Italy's Chamber of Deputies approved a bill on Wednesday to outlaw certain forms of torture. The new law defines torture as "acts, single or repeated, causing suffering and trauma such as to harm...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a previous ruling that Ohio's execution protocol was unconstitutional. The prior ruling had put further executions on hiatus. The question [AP...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday upheld North Carolina's Senate Bill 2 , which allows magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if doing so would conflict with their religious...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of backing "Yemeni forces that have arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and abused dozens of people during security operations." According to HRW, the UAE...

A panel consisting of three judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed all but one conviction of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, who was convicted in 2015 for...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an adoption bill into law on Thursday that allows adoption agencies receiving public funding to refuse to place children in adoptive families or foster homes that conflict with the agencies' religious beliefs....

Six individuals joined with several civil rights groups, including Black Lives Matter Chicago , to file a federal lawsuit against Chicago, accusing the city police force of racial discrimination against African Americans and Latinos. According to the lawsuit,...

Japan's lower legislative house approved changes to Japan's century-old rape laws on Thursday that would expand the definition of rape, lengthen prison sentences to five years and allow prosecutions to occur in instances where a victim did...

Attorneys for Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah have filed a lawsuit against the two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who developed the harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA, including waterboarding and sleep deprivation. The UK human rights group...

The UN Working Group on business and human rights on Thursday urged Canada to address human rights abuses resulting from business activities, both domestic and international. The experts, after a 10-day trip to Canada, specifically referred...