Critics of the government in Azerbaijan have been arrested under suspicious circumstances and convicted this month on politically-motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Gozel Bayramli, a member of the opposition party, Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, and Afgan...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed an executive order mandating internet providers comply with net neutrality. The order makes New York the second state after Montana to update their procurement procedures to require...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the deadly Mosque attack in eastern Benghazi that left 34 people dead and 90 wounded, the majority of whom were male civilians including three young children. According to a...

Three organizations representing 15 Kentucky Medicaid recipients filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration, Department of Health and Human Services , Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and others over...

In a statement celebrating World Leprosy Day, a newly appointed UN human rights expert specializing in leprosy warned that people with the disease continue to face discrimination and lack of access to medical care. Latest statistics show that...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), together with the Abolitionist Law Center , and the law firms of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feiberg & Lin LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP filed a class action suit [complaint,...

The European Court of Justice on Thursday dismissed Austrian attorney Max Schrems' class action privacy lawsuit against Facebook, ruling that Schrems can sue Facebook in his home country as an individual. Schrems has continually campaigned against Facebook's...

The European Court of Justice on Thursday struck down a sexual orientation test used to consider asylum seekers' applications but upheld the use of experts to determine credibility of claims made in the application. The case arose...

A Brazilian federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld former president and current presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's corruption conviction, which could prevent him from continuing his election campaign. Lula was convicted in July on several corruption...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Department of Defense must give the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 72 hours notice before transferring an American detained abroad in order to allow for a legal...