The United Nations Security Council on Friday strongly condemned the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) attempt to fire a ballistic missile in clear violation of UN resolutions. Referring to North Korea by its formal...

UN experts commended Tunisia Friday on the implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), a torture prevention body, and recommended that officials ensure that the delegates are "well-resourced and able to function in the shortest time possible." The...

A delegation from the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) called on the Chilean government Thursday to establish a national independent body to monitor "places of detention." The SPT monitors how states are meeting...

Two independent human rights experts called upon the UN Friday to put into motion a plan to redress damages suffered by internationally displaced persons who were exposed to lead poisoning at camps settled by the UN...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed concerns on Wednesday over the fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel forces, which has caused...

A long-awaited bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide was introduced before the Parliament of Canada on Thursday and is now awaiting passage through the House of Commons and the Senate. This development comes over a year after...

The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil on Friday denied President Dilma Rousseff's injunction request to suspend an upcoming lower house vote regarding her looming impeachment. A lower house committee voted earlier...

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied creditors seeking to keep in place court-ordered protections following Argentina's 2001 default of $100 billion in bonds. Investors who had paid full price for their...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein , on Thursday urged Iran to stop executions over drug offenses pending the debate of a law that would remove the mandatory death penalty as punishment...

Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiangon announced Wednesday that his license to practice law was revoked by the judicial bureau. The bureau allegedly disbarred Pu from practicing law because of a December criminal conviction associated with...