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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

UN experts on Tuesday urged Poland to acquit Justyna Wydrzyńska, a human rights defender and abortion rights activist previously sentenced to eight months of community service. Advocating for the ...

The UN World Food Program (WFP) will close its southern Africa office following the Trump administration's recent foreign aid ...

The government of Rwanda is seeking damages of £50 million from the UK following the cancellation of a migrant transfer deal between Rwanda and the UK on Monday. The controversy comes amidst growing ...

Amnesty International urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday to condemn the forced return of Eritrean refugees to their home country during the 58th session of the human rights council ...