North Carolina lawmakers filed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday aimed at breaking the impasse over the state's so-called "bathroom bill" (HB2) that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that correspond to the sex listed...

The US Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit on Thursday ruled that Texas can enforce a 2015 state law that criminalizes the harboring of illegal immigrants. Texas officials had claimed the law, known as House...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday dismissed charges against Im Chaem, a Buddhist nun suspected of playing a role in the Khmer Rouge regime. The judges in the case said they...

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Fayetteville city ordinance 5781 broadening nondiscrimination laws to include sexual orientation or gender identity is invalid under § 14-1-403 of the Interstate Commerce Improvement Act (Act 137) ....

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction to IMDb , a popular website that posts information about all things Hollywood, blocking enforcement of...

The French National Assembly approved a law on Tuesday that would make French parent corporations liable for human rights violations committed by their subsidiary companies located anywhere in the world. Parent corporations subject to the...

UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan Aristide Nononsi on Wednesday called for the Sudanese government to protect civilian rights in Darfur . Since 2003 the region has faced...

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday released its Annual Report 2016/17 , a summary of an international human rights survey that discusses the role "rhetoric of fear, blame and hate" have played in rolling back human rights around the...

The Supreme Court of Thailand on Thursday upheld the sentence of a former magazine editor who published stories criticizing the royal family. The court did curtail the sentence , so that Somyot Pruksakasemsuk would be released in 2018. The...

The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked the Obama-era guidelines regarding transgender students. The previous guidelines were a joint effort by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) that required federally...