US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday mandating the “full and complete release” of government records related to the 1960s assassinations of US President John F. Kennedy ...

I turned on my TV on Inauguration Day, but avoided coverage of the event in a bid to depress the ratings. No doubt I will be arrested for that act of lèse-majesté in due course. Regardless, I spent ...

New York's Nassau County agreed on Thursday to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color. Once approved by the court, the county will ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered its Civil Rights Division to halt all ongoing litigation from former President Joe Biden’s administration and not pursue new cases or settlements, ...

The Supreme Court of Canada announced on Thursday that it will hear a landmark challenge to Quebec's secularism law, Bill 21. The law was passed in 2019 and prohibits certain public sector employees ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that France violated Ms. H.W's right to respect for private and ...

US federal judge John Coughenour issued a temporary restraining order Thursday against Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship for children of non-citizens, calling it 'blatantly ...

Human Rights Watch urged Egyptian authorities on Wednesday to drop terrorism-related charges against Hossam Bahgat, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). Bahgat ...

Prosecutor Karim AA Khan announced on Thursday that his office filed two applications for arrest warrants before the Pre-trial Chamber against two Taliban ...

The US Congress passed a bill Wednesday that requires undocumented immigrants accused of theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial. The 'Laken Riley Act,' named after a Georgia ...

Amnesty International reported severe systematic human rights violations in Azerbaijan on Thursday. The report reflects the lack of improvement and the systemic nature of the abuses, including ...

An Alberta judge on Tuesday certified a class-action lawsuit alleging that a local school abused Indigenous children in the 1960s and 1970s. Court of King's Bench Justice James Neilson certified the ...