An Islamist double killer who took a prison officer hostage has won a court case on human rights grounds because he was depressed after being put in solitary confinement. David Lammy, the Justice ...

Inter-American Court of Human Rights says Peru must pay family of woman who died as a result of forced sterilisation.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 11 other international legal and rights groups on Wednesday called on a Türkiye court to dismiss ongoing proceedings against the Istanbul Bar Association (ISBA) executive ...

A Pittsburgh lawyer who has spent his career working on international human rights cases now finds himself at the center of a first-of-its-kind challenge to the Trump administration’s continued ...

A gavel rests on a block atop a judge’s bench in an empty courtroom. Photo: Shopify Partners / Burst A lawyer who accused an Alabama coal company of human-rights abuses in Colombia was hit with a $256 ...

Dozens of political prisoners in Venezuela have been held incommunicado for weeks, months, and some for over a year. The lack of communication and denial of visits has become a form of torture, ...

On November 19, the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)—a regional court with jurisdiction over human rights violations in West African member ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...