UN officials warned on Wednesday that Haiti's crisis has reached a critical phase as violence escalates, with entrenched criminal networks and extensive humanitarian needs fueling national ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Thursday for accountability for the toxic spills that have affected children living near Lega Dembi gold mine in Ethiopia, urging the UN Committee on the Rights of ...

Amnesty International on Thursday called on Kazakhstan to immediately drop criminal charges against 19 activists who are part of the Atajurt human rights movement and face up to 10 years in prison ...

A Georgia man pleaded guilty to wire fraud in US federal court on Wednesday after engineering 'the largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia history,' defrauding over 2,000 investors of over $380 million. The ...

Amnesty International released a statement Thursday as a trial begins for activists who organized an annual vigil commemorating the protestors who were killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The ...

Maine Governor Janet Mills on Wednesday responded to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) launch of 'Operation Catch of the Day' in the state. In a public release, Mills assured state ...

Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday after a Seoul court found him guilty of rebellion for his role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ...

The Nara district court sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami on Wednesday to life in prison following his assassination of Japan's former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. He pleaded guilty to murder, having shot ...

Togo's Ministry of Justice on Tuesday confirmed the extradition of former Burkinabè transitional president Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to Burkina Faso, following accusations of ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Tuesday condemned the Russian Federation's latest large-scale attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which have caused mass power and heating outages in ...

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

The United Nations on Tuesday expressed deep concern about the deteriorating security situation in northeast Syria. This follows renewed violent clashes between Syrian government troops and the ...