Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday released a report criticizing Turkey's emergency decrees have weakened human rights safeguards, resulting in at least 13 instances of abuse including sexual abuse, beatings and sleep deprivation. Hugh Williamson, Europe...
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on Monday called on all governments to make a concerted effort to fight against enforced disappearances. Noting the increasing prevalence of disappearances, Houria Es Slami ,...
U.S. District Judge J. Clay Fuller on Thursday ruled that the state of Georgia does not have to reveal information about its one-drug execution method. In a suit brought by two death row inmates challenging...
UN civil rights expert Alfred de Zayas on Friday called on incoming secretary-general Antonio Guterres to host an international conference on phasing out offshore havens to force billionaires and "kleptocrats" to...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 50 other interest groups, sent a letter on Tuesday urging the US Department of Justice to investigate...
A Croatian prosecutor on Tuesday charged eight ex-Yugoslav military officers, including commander Borislav Djukic, with war crimes perpetrated during the Croatian War of Independence . Croatia split from the former Yugoslavia in 1991, and the nations...
A United Nations report released Friday documents high rates of rape and perpetrator impunity in Liberia. The report, released by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights...
President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a new bill creating the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, tasked with identifying and finding solutions to problems facing Native American youths. The...
Maina Kiai , UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, warned Tuesday that the Egyptian government "seems to be systematically attacking civil society in an effort to silence its voice." Specifically targeting...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard argument in the cases of Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple, Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado and Manrique v. United States . In Samsung Electronics, Samsung Corporation challenged [transcript,...
