Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, on Tuesday welcomed the release of political prisoners in that country. The Special Rapporteur stated that "it was ... touching to see joyful scenes across...

UN rights experts on Monday called for Honduras to provide justice in the murder case of Berta Cáceres , as well as broad protection for everyone defending human rights and the environment. Cáceres was the founder of the...

A committee in the lower house of the Brazilian legislature voted 38-27 on Monday to recommend the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff over corruption and budget violations before her 2014 re-election. The full...

The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) has obtained secret documents from Syria that have led members to believe Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can be successfully prosecuted for war crimes. The documents allegedly prove [New Yorker...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that the only way to prevent future atrocities like the Rwandan genocide is to take shared responsibility and shared action to prevent them. Speaking at the General Assembly commemoration of...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday threw out a constitutional challenge to Utah's anti-bigamy laws . The lawsuit was brought in 2011 by the family from TLC's reality TV show...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday argued that a proposed Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Turkmenistan should be halted until Turkmenistan meets human rights benchmarks. The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee held...

Three UN human rights experts experts urged Egypt on Monday to cease its ongoing crackdown on humans rights defenders and organizations. They stated that Egypt is failing in its international responsibility to provide a safe and enabling environment...

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe on Sunday offered amendments to an alternative execution bill (HB 815) that would have required the use of the electric chair if lethal injections are unavailable. McAuliffe scrapped the bill's provision [AP...

Former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Sabrina de Sousa filed an appeal in Portugal's Constitutional Court Monday in a last attempt to prevent her extradition to Italy to serve a six-year sentence for her...