How — and where — should victims collect reparations for a genocide? In New York, an effort to hold present-day Germany responsible for what is grimly called the first genocide of the 20th century is against the ropes.
Read moreA court in Germany has ruled that the government should seek assurances from the United States that drone strikes controlled from German territory are in line with international law.
Read moreTaking an unusually strong stance against Saudi Arabia before the U.N.’s human rights body, three dozen Western countries demanded Thursday that the Gulf nation disclose “all information available” on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Read moreThe United Nations’ human rights chief has delayed publication of a report on companies doing business in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, saying in a letter made public Tuesday that her office needs more time to carry out a complex and unprecedented task — one with deep political implications.
Read moreA top European official is criticizing French authorities for their handling of the anti-government protests that have rocked the country in recent months, urging them to “show more respect for human rights.”
Read moreThe “lawless” activities of South Sudan’s national security and military intelligence risk turning the war-torn country into a police state run on fear and corruption, said the United Nations on Wednesday.
Read moreFor four months late last year in the so-called Unity State in South Sudan, soldiers raped women and girls more than daily, overwhelmingly in gangs. Some of the victims were children. No areas were safe. Authorities took little action.
Read moreThe European Union is launching action that could see it suspend Cambodia’s preferential access to the EU market over the deterioration of human rights and the rule of law in the country.
Read moreThai prosecutors submitted a request in court Friday for Thailand to extradite to Bahrain a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia.
Read moreThe Trump administration pressed China to immediately release a high-profile human rights lawyer who was sentenced Monday to 4½ years in prison on the charge of subversion of state power on Monday.
Read moreProminent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced to 4½ years in prison on the charge of subversion of state power Monday, more than three years after he was detained in a sweeping crackdown on the legal profession.
Read morePope Francis on Wednesday said that fear of immigration is “making us crazy” as he began a trip to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump’s promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border and a new caravan of migrants heading north.
Read moreFinding a silver lining in its sober account of how far-right autocrats took the spotlight in 2018, Human Rights Watch reported Thursday that the corruption it observed tended to bolster resistance movements.
Read moreThe removal of four German children from their family home due to their parents’ law-breaking decision to home school them did not violate human rights laws, a European court found Thursday.
Read moreNetflix faced criticism Wednesday from human rights groups for pulling an episode in Saudi Arabia of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” series that criticized the kingdom’s powerful crown prince.
Read moreU.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who allegedly tried to breach the border fence in Tijuana.
Read moreThe Trump administration said it will keep open through early 2019 a tent city in Texas that holds more than 2,000 immigrant teenagers, and also will increase the number of beds at another detention center for children in Florida.
Read moreThe European Union is slapping asset freezes and travel bans on seven more people accused of human rights violations against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
Read moreTaking direct aim at National Security Adviser John Bolton, Human Rights Watch brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Central Command and others for refusing to release documents on the mistreatment of detainees during the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
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