Just over a year ago, the European Union approved a directive that sought to usher in a new era of human rights protection ...

We still have a ways to go when it comes to protecting universal human rights around the globe The importance of human rights ...

The battle for the human right to a healthy climate is raging in courts in the Global North and the Global South, and ...

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms says a nurse, who was sanctioned by the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives ...

Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has determined that Rwanda's current regulations and restrictions do not meet international human rights standards. In its submission to the Universal Periodic ...

El Salvador's most prominent human rights group says it's been forced into exile, citing threats and harassment from the ...

The Imo State Police Commissioner, CP Aboki Danjuma, has warned men and officers of the State Command against violation of ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following information ahead of Georgia’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Georgia’s human rights record has dramatically deteriorated since its last UPR ...

The Haryana Human Rights Commission has allowed the department to recover the penalty from the two errant police officers.

PennLive reporter Joshua Vaughn has been named the Human Rights Champion of the Year by the Pennsylvania Prison Society for ...