Two UN human rights experts on Tuesday called on the Philippines government to investigate the deaths of three human rights defenders in the province of Surigao del Sur, Mindanao. One activist, the director of the Alternative Learning...
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on Friday urged countries to increase efforts to search for disappeared persons. Chairman of the group Ariel Dulitzky , in addressing the 47 members of...
The US House of Representatives on Friday approved the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 , a bill that would cut all federal funding to women's healthcare provider Planned Parenthood . The vote followed...
A Canadian court on Tuesday ruled that women may be allowed to wear face-covering veils during swearing the oath of citizenship. The case, heard by a Federal Court of Appeal , was brought by Zunera Ishaq against the...
The High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday stated that no country has achieved full equality between men and women and urged the 47 members of the Human Rights Council to make efforts to achieve...
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Saturday accepted the resignation of his prime minister and and his cabinet. The resignation comes after former Agriculture Minister was detained on Monday, after an investigation headed...
The president of Yemen on Sunday backed out of talks arranged by the United Nations (UN) with Shiite rebels. It was announced by his office that there would be no talks until the rebels accept...
The city of Baltimore on Tuesday reached a tentative agreement with the family of Freddie Gray worth $6.4 million. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the settlement will now be sent to the Baltimore Board of Estimates...
Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses due to personal beliefs, was released from jail on Tuesday. District Judge David Bunning of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky...
Amnesty International (AI) said Sunday that the Swazi government is continuing to use repressive laws as a way of silencing those opposed to the government and suppressing freedom of expression. AI made these statements on...
