Australian officials are abusing prisoners with disabilities, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities are at especially high risk, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The report , titled, "I Needed Help, Instead I Was Punished":...

UN expert Paulo Pinheiro on Tuesday reported civilian violence in Syria is dramatically increasing, causing internal displacement and an estimated quarter of a million civilians to flee the country. Pinheiro, Chairperson of the International Commission of Inquiry on...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday explained that traditional district-drawing criteria mandated the court's decision last month to strike down the state's 2011 electoral map. While the court delivered its order finding...

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed into law an anti-defamation bill that prohibits blaming Poland for assisting in Holocaust crimes. The Act on the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes...

The House passed two measures in sexual misconduct procedure and rules Tuesday in a unanimous roll call, including a bill that addresses changes to how complaints are addressed on Capitol Hill, and a resolution that changes...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Wednesday criticized Indonesia's increasing public attitude of religious intolerance and urged the government to address it. Zeid also criticized the country's blasphemy laws as "ill-defined" and...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed an order to redraw certain North Carolina congressional districts. The US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina invalidated several districts in the state last fall. The districts...

Three justices of the Maldives Supreme Court on Tuesday annulled a controversial ruling the court had issued last Thursday that required the government to immediately release a number of political prisoners. The reversal came a...

Three transgender individuals on Tuesday sued Alabama over its driver's license policy requiring transgender people to show proof of sex reassignment surgery in order to change the gender indicator their on driver's licenses. The plaintiffs claim that this policy...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Tuesday sued Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyCotin, alleging its practices have fueled the opioid epidemic. Alabama's complaint asserts that Purdue "violated Alabama's Deceptive Trade Practices Act...