The Spanish government ordered the town of Jumilla to drop its ban on religious gatherings in public sports centers on Monday, asserting that the measure disproportionately affects the town's Muslim ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday condemned the conviction and 20-year prison sentence of the leader of Chad’s main opposition party, calling it a politically motivated trial. HRW criticized ...

The UK High Court of Justice on Monday dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's (WF) legal challenge to aspects of the new Online Safety Act (OSA), ruling that the organization failed to establish ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed shock and sorrow over the death of Colombian senator and presidential pre‑candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay on Monday. Uribe Turbay, 39, a ...

The humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, United Nations (UN) officials warned on Monday, describing overflowing hospitals, critically malnourished children, and desperate ...

House of Delegates voted to end its longstanding practice of reserving five Board of Governors seats for women, racial minorities, and other ...

Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Centre raised alarm on Monday over the increasing use of the death penalty to crush peaceful dissent without due process in Saudi Arabia this year.

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor on Monday called on the Chinese authorities to maintain the rights of human rights defenders who have been imprisoned. Lawlor said she was ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday placing Washington DC's police force under federal control, invoking emergency powers that face potential constitutional challenges over ...

US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York rejected on Monday the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury materials from the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case. The court took ...

From defending detainees held at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—many of whom were subjected to secret detention and torture by US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials—to ...

The UN Security Council voiced concerns on Sunday regarding the violence and attacks against civilians in Syria’s Sweida region. The Security Council adopted a presidential statement, document ...