US President Donald Trump vowed Friday to sue The Wall Street Journal over a report claiming he wrote a sexual letter to ...

A Russian military court sentenced a defected soldier to 23 years of imprisonment and a fine of 590,000 rubles (approximately ...

A Russian military court sentenced a prisoner to an additional 6 years of imprisonment and a 49,000 rubles (approximately ...

UN experts on Thursday warned that the Peruvian Congress' approval of a bill granting amnesty to persons who committed serious human rights violations during the internal armed conflict between 1980 ...

Amnesty International denounced on Thursday new legislative amendments in Russia that strengthen the fight against extremism. The organization emphasized that new bills that allow groups to be ...

US states sued President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday with the aim of blocking the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) cut of funding to a specific pre-disaster mitigation ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday commended the decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of South African runner Caster Semenya, who challenged regulations imposed by ...

Amid soaring child deaths, surging malnutrition, ceaseless bombardments, and a shattered health system, conditions in Gaza have deteriorated to “unspeakable” levels, top UN officials warned the ...

A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal team allegedly delivered threats to Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that, unless the ICC ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a speech on Wednesday urging UN member states to invest more effort in addressing the gender gap in sports and promoting the rights of ...

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan.   Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech ...

The United Nations on Tuesday called for immediate de-escalation and the protection of civilians as violence intensifies in multiple parts of Syria at a briefing in New York. Inter-ethnic violence ...