US President Donald Trump recently claimed he has 'unquestioned power' under the Insurrection Act to deploy National Guard troops to San Francisco. The Insurrection Act grants the President ...

Amnesty International reported Monday that Tanzanian authorities have 'intensified their repression of dissent against the opposition, journalists, civil society and human rights defenders in a ...

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday that strengthens current sanctions on Haiti, extending them for a year, in order to mitigate persistent organized gang violence in the country.

Ghana's bodies of water are being poisoned by mercury and cyanide. Babies are being born with severe health conditions. And now a chorus of voices is demanding the president invoke emergency powers ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will consider whether a federal law prohibiting gun possession by unlawful drug users violates the Second Amendment, marking the latest firearms dispute to ...

President Donald Trump announced the commutation of former New York Congressman George Santos’ prison sentence on Friday, ordering his immediate release. In a post on Truth Social, President Trump ...

UN Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo Agudo urged global action on the democratization of water governance and the protection of human rights concerning access to water sources on Friday. According to ...

Amnesty International on Thursday released Left Behind in the Storm, a report showing that Bangladesh is failing to ensure equal access to safe water and sanitation for Dalit women sanitation ...

The UK Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that the British activist group Palestine Action may proceed with its legal challenge against the government’s decision to ban it under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Amnesty International on Friday voiced concern over the possible closure of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic due to a lack of funding. The rights group stated that it ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged both Taliban and Pakistani authorities on Thursday to investigate the killing of Afghan journalist Abdul Ghafor Abed on Thursday. Abed, a provincial ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the announcement of a new constitutional amendment in Chad, stating that it threatens to pose a significant setback to the rule of law and democracy by ...