Privacy International , a rights group devoted to promoting and protecting the privacy rights of individuals worldwide released a report on Wednesday documenting serious human rights abuses such as torture, extrajudicial killings and disappearances that have...

The judge presiding over the USS Cole bombing case, US Air Force Col. Vance Spath, said Wednesday that he plans to set a 2018 trial date for the case. The judge stated that he anticipates that it will...

UN rights experts urged the Philippines legislature on Thursday to reject a proposed death penalty bill that would reintroduce capital punishment for drug-related offenses. Specifically, the bill authorizes death penalty for the "import, sale, manufacture, delivery and distribution" of...

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...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order to an Afghan man trying to enter the US on a Special Immigration Visa, which are granted to those who have assisted...

Thousands of people in Belarus on Wednesday gathered to protest a labor law that fines people if they do not work enough days during the year. President Alexander Lukashenko enacted Ordinance No. 3 ...

UK House of Commons speaker John Bercow announced Thursday that the EU withdrawal bill has received royal assent and become law. UK Prime Minister Theresa May is now empowered to...

The UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues Rita Izsák-Ndiaye called release for action to preserve the progress made in the protection of minority rights. Speaking in her final address before the Human Rights Council ,...

Two federal judges—one in Maryland on Thursday and another in Hawaii on Wednesday—issued temporary restraining orders against President Donald Trump's new 90-day travel ban . Finding that the state had established...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictments of four Russian individuals in connection with hacking e-mail accounts on Wednesday. The DOJ indicted two members of the Russian intelligence agency FSB as well as two...