Israel’s new death penalty law is one of the most discriminatory pieces of execution legislation that the world has witnessed ...

A US federal jury Wednesday found Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster violated multiple federal antitrust laws, determining the companies held an illegal monopoly over the live ...

UN experts on Thursday insisted on accountability for trafficking allegations contained in the Epstein files, warning that disclosures emerging from the documents indicate that the systemic ...

A group of UN independent experts on Wednesday denounced the assassination of human rights advocate Zweli 'Khabazela' Mkhize, and urged South Africa to hold perpetrators accountable. The experts, ...

On Tuesday, Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, spoke at the fifth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, where he described reparations as 'key to ...

Amnesty International applauded on Wednesday the Italian government's suspension its decades-long defense agreement with Israel, due to growing opposition to the Israeli military operations in the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday that Chinese authorities are increasing their pressure on 'underground' Catholic communities to join the state-controlled church. The recent ...

A group of seven UN experts expressed alarm on Wednesday about a new law aimed at silencing LGBTQ+ voices and proponents of human and women's rights in Belarus. The experts were concerned that this ...

Note: This story is part of a series of coverage from the first week of the 2026 UN Women's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). Read Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4. Friday marked the fifth ...

Maine's legislature on Tuesday passed a temporary moratorium on the construction of large data centers through November 1, 2027, making Maine the first state in the US to impede facility expansion ...

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in ...

Amnesty International called the conviction and sentencing of 19 activists participating in a peaceful protest a 'travesty of justice,' in a press release on Tuesday. The protest was intended to ...