Responding to mounting actions by President Pierre Nkurunziza , UN human rights experts condemned on Monday governmental hostility towards non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights defenders. The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights...

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens signed a bill into law on Monday, making Missouri the most recent right to work state. The law, which will go into effect August 28, prevents employers from requiring union membership or dues to support...

Deutsche See, an environmentally conscious fish distributor, became Volkswagen's first major German customer to sue VW over misrepresenting their vehicles as being environmentally friendly. Deutsche See's complaint alleged "malicious deception" and was filed at the...

According to the annual UN report , civilian casualties in Afghanistan for 2016 were at a record high. A total of 3,498 civilians were killed and 7,920 were wounded. Of the dead, 923 were children , as...

A Hungarian court in Gyor ordered a retria on Monday over the 2010 toxic red sludge spill that killed ten people in one of the country's worst environmental disasters. Judge Csilla Zolyomi said that there had...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday for the government of Myanmar to "urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses" against the Rohingya Muslim population, including sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls. According...

Saudi Arabia has intensified its arrests and convictions of human rights advocates and dissenting writers in 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. In January a Saudi court sentenced two human rights activists to long...

Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , announced on Monday morning that he would soon publish details of an alternative bill to update the criminal...

A report released Monday by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that 4,444 people alleged sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Australia between January 1985 and February 2015. Looking at data...

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit received two separate filings Monday from officials in the public and private sectors who oppose President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. The appellate court is considering a...