Italy’s Constitutional Court ruled that both members of a same-sex female couple can be recognised as legal parents of a child born in Italy through medically assisted reproduction ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday that the new World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty is a landmark effort, but is flawed and inadequate in its implementation mechanisms and ...

High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Friday sharply criticized recent legislation that allows civilians in Uganda to be tried in military courts. This comes in ...

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday to return a gay Guatemalan man to the US ...

Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology has instructed telecommunication service providers to block the messaging app Telegram for not cooperating in combating alleged crimes committed by its ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern on Friday over the escalating hostilities in South Sudan since February, warning that the hostilities could further worsen ...

Amnesty International on Friday called upon Ethiopian authorities to negotiate with striking medical professionals and release those detained for peaceful protests, urging the country to protect the ...

UN Special Rapporteur Margaret Satterthwaite on Friday stated that Guatemala's legal system is at a turning point, stressing that the country's democratic future depends on whether upcoming judicial ...

The US Supreme Court split evenly Thursday over a challenge to the attempted establishment of the country’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court ...

Army-backed militias, collectively known as the 'Wazalendo,' committed widespread human rights abuses against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to Human Rights Watch ...

A federal judge in California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Thursday to prevent further terminations of the legal statuses of international students living and working across the US.

Amnesty International reported on Friday that women participating in protests against the government in Georgia have been subjected to intimidation, harassment, and gender-based physical and ...