UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday warned Syria that air strikes, shelling and use of toxic agents in Eastern Ghouta likely constitute war crimes. Zeid asserts that the citizens of...

A judge for the Superior Court of Massachusetts ruled that Massachusetts' attorney general Maura Healey will not be barred by sovereign immunity from bringing a lawsuit against Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) [official...

Oregon senators on Thursday voted for a bill that seeks to preserve net neutrality protections for the internet. The Oregon house voted on and passed the bill earlier in the week. The bill does not require all...

Mexico's Lower House of Congress approved a bill Thursday that would place regulations on crowdfunding and cryptocurrency firms. The bill previously passed the senate and still...

The attorneys general from 15 states and Washington, DC, filed an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of a challenge to four abortion laws enacted by Arkansas in...

Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) on Wednesday upheld the 2012 changes to the Brazilian Floral Code that reduced protection for rainforests in Brazil. The 2012 changes included granting amnesty...

A UN expert on foreign debt, finance and rights warned the Human Rights Council Wednesday that various austerity measures can lead to serious human rights consequences and should no longer be ignored. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, the...

A group of rights experts from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Wednesday demanded that the US government release Guantánamo detainee Ammar al Baluchi, a 40-year-old Pakistan national, stating that his detention the center is "arbitrary...

The Iowa Senate on Wednesday voted 30-20 to approve a draft of an anti-abortion bill that would ban most abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat. The bill now proceeds to the Iowa House of Representatives for consideration....

A UN rights expert told the Human Rights Council that states are obligated to protect human rights defenders who assist hundreds of thousands of people who are on the move each year. The term "people on the move"...