Ten states voted Tuesday on constitutional amendments to guarantee abortion rights. Voters from seven states approved, with three rejecting the amendments. Missouri had one of the largest shifts in ...

Quebec premier François Legault announced on Wednesday that his government is prepared to use the notwithstanding clause to require doctors trained in Quebec to start their careers in the province's ...

Justice Federico of the Tenth Circuit of Appeal overturned a lower-court injunction on Tuesday against a Colorado law that raises the minimum age for purchasing a gun from 18 to 21, concluding that ...

Amnesty International on Thursday emphasized the importance of prioritizing climate justice and human rights at the upcoming COP29, which will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Bosnia violated the European Convention on Human Rights by its insufficient data protection laws with regard to legal professional ...

Amnesty International recognized Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Russian election watchdog Golos (“Voice”), as a prisoner of conscience on Tuesday. Melkonyants was arrested on August 17, 2023, ...

The German Federal Prosecutor's Office arrested eight people on Tuesday under suspected membership of a neo-Nazi militant group known as 'Sächsische Separatisten' or 'Saxon Separatists,' the Federal ...

The G7 Foreign Ministers issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on 31 October, which ...

The Federal Police in Brazil announced on Monday that they identified and arrested the murderer of Bruno Pereira and Dom ...

Amnesty International (AI) called on the Mozambican government Wednesday to immediately cease its violent crackdown on civil ...

Human rights organizations sounded the alarm on Tuesday over the deteriorating health of Chinese legal scholar and human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month ...

Amnesty International condemned Lebanon's military court on Tuesday for its failure to hold security forces officers responsible for Syrian refugee Bashar Abd Saud's death in custody accountable.