The Australian government violated the rights of former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks when they continued to detain him after a transfer deal with the US, the UN Human Rights Committee said in a...
The French National Assembly on Wednesday approved a bill that would strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship rights. The amendment to the constitution would also grant the president greater power to act...
Amnesty International USA (AI) alleges that Mustafa al-Hawsawi , one of the accused 9/11 ringleaders, is in desperate need of medical care in a letter to the Pentagon that was made public on Wednesday. In...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that increased funding and international cooperation are needed to successfully combat human trafficking . Ban stressed that human trafficking affects victims in 124 countries despite the existence of political...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday that it would explore legal action to keep the Ferguson City Council from making changes to an agreement to reform its police department and municipal operations....
In an open letter released Thursday, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International , along with five other advocacy groups, urged Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma to sign a bill that would increase women's access to...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan E. Méndez on Thursday called on the Mauritanian authorities to protect suspects and detainees from abuse and torture while being held in the country. The call to implement already existing...
The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of Cary Michael Lambrix amid growing concern about the constitutionality of Florida's death penalty scheme. The stay comes after the US Supreme Court ...
The US House of Representatives failed Tuesday to garner enough votes to override the president's veto of the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 , the most recent legislative effort to repeal the Affordable...
Representatives from 29 states on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to block the he implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) . The plan seeks to eliminate the amount of carbon...
