Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday that Cambodian authorities arbitrarily arrested and charged up to 16 individuals for expressing opinions on border tensions with Thailand earlier this ...

Amnesty International on Thursday raised concern over existing barriers to abortion access compounded by alarming attempts to roll back reproductive rights in Europe. The warning came in a ...

A US federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide better conditions for detainees in an Chicago immigration facility. Judge Robert Gettleman of the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Oxfam America released a statement on Wednesday calling attention to the millions of Americans who may lose affordable health insurance if Congress refuses to extend ...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a policy to move forward that prevents nonbinary and transgender people from having gender markers on their passports that align with their chosen identity.

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, D.C. Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The US ...

UN experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, on Tuesday cautioned that a pending amendment to Peru's General Law on Persons with Disabilities risks ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday denounced France's short-term residency system as a systemic violation of human rights as it traps migrant workers in a cycle of discrimination, leaving them ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) raised alarm on Wednesday over a spike in cholera cases in Haiti’s West department. The statement emphasized 'the urgent need for coordinated, long-term action to restore ...

A coalition of California voters and the state's Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the legality of Proposition 50's congressional redistricting maps. The lawsuit argues ...

Voters in six states Tuesday approved sweeping constitutional amendments that restrict voting access, limit judicial discretion on bail and constrain future legislative authority, raising concerns ...

UN experts expressed concern on Tuesday about Indonesia's continued disregard for its indigenous people's fundamental rights. They urged the Indonesian government to recognize indigenous peoples and ...