The Law Commission of Ontario (LSO) and the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released a background report on the Human ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders called on Wednesday for support for human rights defenders ...

Amnesty International published a report on Tuesday exposing Russia's mistreatment of both Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian captives currently held in detention within Ukraine and ...

Amnesty International called on Wednesday for an investigation into Israeli military attacks on health facilities during the Lebanon war and labeled them as war crimes. Amnesty International's ...

Serbia's opposition lawmakers on Tuesday threw smoke grenades and tear gas inside the National Assembly to support demonstrating students. One legislator suffered a stroke during the chaos and three ...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump from firing the Democratic chair of the US Merit System Protection Board (MSPB). Trump had ...

India on Monday strongly rebuked UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk for his remarks on Kashmir and Manipur, calling them 'unfounded and baseless'. The sharp response came after Turk, ...

The US Supreme Court sided with the city and county of San Francisco on Tuesday in a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finding the EPA cannot penalize the city if water quality ...

On Friday, March 7, just ahead of the Jewish Sabbath, a South Carolina firing squad will shoot to death my longtime pen pal and friend Brad Sigmon. This will mark the first American firing squad ...

In 1996, when Professor Bernard Hibbitts first established JURIST, few could have foreseen the impact the project would have. Whether measured in terms of the individual lives it has touched, its ...

In the article, Giuliana Himont, a postgraduate student at Nottingham University's School of Law, explores the UK's proposed Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and ...

A Nigerian government official on Sunday addressed the Supreme Court's annulment of local elections, after months of silence, with the view that while he disagreed with the decision, he would ...