The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ruled on Wednesday that Nigeria violated the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in ...

The Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice; the Cornell Law School Gender Justice Clinic, and University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic submit the following ...

The report found “hundreds” of possible Israeli human rights violations, further complicating a process to review credible ...

It’s not just public criticism that’s banned, but any independent thought. Even actions seemingly unrelated to politics or criticism of the authorities can be punished. There is no field of art where ...

In December 2020, the Council established a human rights sanctions framework that applies globally, meaning that the EU can target individuals, entities and bodies – including state and non-state ...

Over a dozen FBI agents were fired Friday, including ones photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in June 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd, according to the FBI Agents ...

CAPE TOWN, Nov 17 (Reuters) - South African double Olympic 800-metre champion Caster Semenya is to take her fight with World Athletics to the European Court of Human Rights, her lawyers confirmed on ...

In just one week, President Donald Trump has launched the most systemic and aggressive assault on human rights in U.S. presidential history. While the first Trump administration made similar attempts ...

LONDON/GENEVA Aug 28 (Reuters) - The United States will not participate in a U.N. review of its human rights record, officials said, a move that rights advocates called a worrying retreat from ...

The Sakharov Prize for imprisoned journalists comes as Washington negotiates prisoner releases from Belarus, with mixed ...