Ge Yongxi, a civil rights defense lawyer, was detained and released late Friday by Chinese authorities for posts on social media that "poked fun" at President Xi Jinping in relation to the Panama Papers. Ge posted an image of the...

UN experts commended Tunisia Friday on the implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), a torture prevention body, and recommended that officials ensure that the delegates are "well-resourced and able to function in the shortest time possible." The...

A delegation from the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) called on the Chilean government Thursday to establish a national independent body to monitor "places of detention." The SPT monitors how states are meeting...

Two independent human rights experts called upon the UN Friday to put into motion a plan to redress damages suffered by internationally displaced persons who were exposed to lead poisoning at camps settled by the UN...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed concerns on Wednesday over the fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel forces, which has caused...

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam vetoed a controversial bill on Friday that would have made the Bible the state's official book. Haslam stated that the bill violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution as well as Article...

A long-awaited bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide was introduced before the Parliament of Canada on Thursday and is now awaiting passage through the House of Commons and the Senate. This development comes over a year after...

The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil on Friday denied President Dilma Rousseff's injunction request to suspend an upcoming lower house vote regarding her looming impeachment. A lower house committee voted earlier...

The Second District Court of Appeal for the state of California upheld the state's teacher tenure law on Thursday, overturning a lower court's 2014 decision . Those opposing the law claimed that providing teachers strong...

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss raised by three gun companies who are being sued by families affected by the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. The ten families filed...