Final arguments were made Friday before the International Criminal Court on whether it should investigate crimes and human rights violations committed in Afghanistan by all parties to the conflict.
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The Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy for asylum-seekers has sparked a human rights crisis that already has killed several people, and it’s getting worse, according to volunteers working in Mexican border towns and a recent report from a federal watchdog.
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Western governments including the United States said Tuesday that a cache of leaked documents proves that Chinese authorities are engaged in massive and systemic repression of Muslims and other minorities in western China.
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Sylvia. Dalila. Aminata. Céline. Julie. Their names are plastered on buildings and headlines across France, calling attention to their shared fate: Each was killed this year, allegedly by a current or former partner.
Read moreThe United States has begun carrying out a major policy shift on asylum that’s a top priority of President Donald Trump, returning a Honduran refuge-seeker to Guatemala to pursue his asylum case.
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In a scathing report, Amnesty International said Thursday the business models of tech giants Facebook and Google, which make huge profits by gathering and selling data on people, are seriously undermining the privacy and human rights of billions of people.
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Doctors Without Borders is warning that refuge-seekers trying to reach Western Europe are living in “dangerously cold and harsh conditions” in Bosnia, where tensions have mounted over the influx of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty.
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China on Friday threatened “countermeasures” against Sweden if the country’s culture minister awards a Swedish PEN rights prize as planned to detained Chinese-Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai.
Read moreAn Iranian asylum seeker and award-winning author held in an offshore Australian detention camp for more than six years said Thursday he had arrived in New Zealand, and was celebrating freedom.
Read moreUighur activists said Tuesday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain members of the ethnic group, and that Beijing could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of 1 million people.
Read moreThe European Union’s top court ruled Tuesday that EU countries must oblige retailers to identify products made in Israeli settlements with special labels, a ruling sure to spark anger in Israel.
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A Mexican immigrant fighting President Donald Trump’s attempt to end a program shielding young immigrants from deportation says he is nervous about the case finally being heard Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreA 33-year-old orangutan granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina is settling into her new surroundings at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida.
Read moreDetermined to hold the Texas prison system accountable for violating a class action settlement requiring air-conditioning for some heat-sensitive inmates, a federal judge said Wednesday the agency’s director must identify who lied to class counsel to try to delay their inspection of a prison in Beaumont.
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An anti-government assailant stabbed a pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker who was campaigning Wednesday, police said, in an escalation of violent protests demanding political reforms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
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Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, protested Tuesday in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke.
Read moreIsrael’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld the government’s expulsion of a senior Human Rights Watch official over his alleged support of a boycott of the country.
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Tucson voters will decide Tuesday whether the city that gave birth to the 1980s Sanctuary Movement should offer limited sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
Read moreThe first trial of state-sanctioned torture in Syria is set to take place in Germany early next year after German prosecutors charged two former Syrian secret service officials in federal court.
Read moreSri Lanka’s top court on Tuesday effectively blocked a plan by the president to bring back hangings for the first time since 1976 before he leaves office next month.
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