Streets were silenced, businesses shuttered, and daily life reduced to hurried, masked visits to the grocery store. Such scenes seemed unthinkable, yet they became a reality as governments worldwide ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that the Netherlands violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to respect for private and family ...

Kyrgyzstan detained the prominent Kyrgyz human rights defender, Rita Karasartova without formal charges on Monday. Amnesty International denounced the detention as an 'alarming sign of deepening ...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch urged the European Union to demand that Bhutanese authorities release dozens of political prisoners held for decades on Tuesday. The detainees have ...

The United Nation's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan deplored the increasing violence in Darfur on Monday, as the war enters its third year. The Fact-Finding Mission called ...

Hundreds of people in northern Ghana, mostly older women, continue to live in fear and extreme hardship after being accused of witchcraft and forced from their communities, according to a new report ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the European Union (EU) on Monday to focus on the protection of Palestinians' rights in light of the first EU-Palestine High-Level Political Dialogue of April 14, ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order on Friday in the election protest raised by state Supreme Court candidate ...

Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City has been forced out of service following a devastating Israeli airstrike early Sunday morning, amid what UN agencies describe as an escalating humanitarian ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on the European Union's border agency, Frontex, to use aerial surveillance not only to detect and monitor migrant vessels in distress but also to facilitate ...

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would restrict district court judges from issuing ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday welcomed the UN Human Rights Council's first-ever resolution on antipersonnel landmines that was passed on April 4. The Ottawa Convention defines an anti-personnel ...