Amnesty International said a growing number of Southeast Asian states are cutting back on the death penalty, creating new ...

The room is dark, and only a little light enters through the windows. A man stands in the middle of it. He is a dictator, and ...

The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Thursday that Tawila, in Sudan’s Darfur region, which hosts more than ...

Autonomous systems now write code, diagnose illness, drive vehicles, and trade securities with steadily diminishing human ...

A US federal judge on Thursday extended a temporary restraining order (TRO) that permits White House access for journalists ...

Yesterday, Americans learned that their government plans to broadcast a killing. The Pentagon said Thursday that the December execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood ...

Medical personnel are protected persons. That principle — rooted in the Geneva Conventions and universally accepted — is now being tested in Iran with the case of Mozhdeh Hashemi Bazargani, a ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the Trump administration's 'third-country removal' policy, which has sent people primarily to African countries where they have no connection: Between ...

A Cornell Special Committee on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the university has hired Sally Yates to conduct an ...

UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged Denmark and Greenland to ensure accountability and the rights of Inuit women at the centre of their response to the decades-long use of contraception ...

An EU spokesperson told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Wednesday that amendments passed by the Kosovo Assembly ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the French government to permanently ban stun grenades in the policing of all ...