Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday released a report alleging that former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa abused the criminal justice system to target indigenous leaders and environmentalists who protested mining and oil exploration in the Amazon....
UN human rights experts expressed concern Friday over the diminishing health of Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed in China for inciting subversion of state power. Jaing's health has dramatically deteriorated in recent months, and the...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday said the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) violated human rights law after a report emerged that the DRC severely restricted...
UN human rights experts on Monday called for the immediate release of two human rights defenders in Iran after reports emerged that the two defenders had been subjected to beatings in detention. Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee...
Peru's Congress voted by a wide margin on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for a second time in three months. Congress voted 87-15 in...
Turkey's parliament on Tuesday approved legislation modifying electoral regulations, leading to a brawl on the chamber floor as the opposition says the new rules could lead to fraud and undermine the integrity of a slate of polls...
A UN official investigating human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee , on Monday called for an immediate investigation into "clearance operations" in Rakhine State, stating she is increasingly convinced the state's actions amount to genocide. Lee called...
A group of private cryptocurrency traders on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit alleging that employees of the San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase engaged in insider trading of Bitcoin Cash. The class action lawsuit was...
UN investigators on Tuesday reported that Russian airstrikes on a Syrian market that killed more than 80 civilians last year may constitute a war crime. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria stated that on November...
A federal judge in Maryland on Monday rejected a challenge to President Donald Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Child Arrival (DACA) program, an Obama-era immigration policy that protects undocumented children. Judge Roger Titus stated that...
