Several organizations signed a joint statement on Wednesday, calling for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to put an end to the use of ...

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Tuesday said that Serbia needs to take further action to 'protect people deprived of their liberty from torture and ill-treatment.' During a ...

Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to abolish the death penalty for eight categories of criminal offenses: embezzlement, bribery, counterfeiting medicines, espionage, ...

Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking a judge to declare that a key tool President Donald Trump's administration has relied on to cancel federal grants is being ...

Dutch Member of Parliament Kati Piri (GroenLinks–PvdA) introduced a parliamentary motion calling for a complete arms embargo on Israel, including a suspension of defense-related ...

Hong Kong Deputy High Court Judge Frankie Yiu refused to grant leave for a constitutional challenge against a provision criminalizing the incitement of casting invalid votes. In the judgment issued ...

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced on Tuesday that the recent killing of ...

The German Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled on Tuesday in favor of lifting the ban on the right-wing Compact magazine. In the court's view, although Compact's publications and overall ...

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged the international community to address escalating violence and human rights abuses in Haiti, noting that conditions have been steadily deteriorating one year ...

A federal judge in California issued a landmark ruling on Monday in one of the first major court decisions addressing Artificial Intelligence (AI) training and copyright law. In a mixed ruling, the ...

The Hong Kong legislative council passed a law on Wednesday that bans anyone convicted of a national security offence from creating or holding a leadership position within a union. The new law ...