The Council on American-Islamic Relations for New York (CAIR-NY), along with Kaufman Lieb Lebowitz & Frick LLP, on Thursday sued Orange County, New York, officials for religious discrimination ...

A US federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funds to certain ...

Amnesty International expressed deep concern over a dramatic increase in executions for drug-related offenses in Saudi Arabia ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Thursday that France failed to offer effective protection to three minors ...

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a recent law graduate of the University Law College, ...

US North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a state bill on Tuesday that would have restricted books with 'explicit sexual material' displayed or made available to minors in the state, including ...

The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) raised  serious concerns Thursday about prison conditions and psychiatric care ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities to remove the terrorism designation of 11 ...

Russia's Tambov Garrison Military Court sentenced Major General Ivan Popov, who had publicly disapproved of the way Russian military forces operated in Ukraine, to five years in prison on Thursday ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse of children Fatima Singhateh welcomed on Thursday efforts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to combat child sale and ...

Independent UN rights experts expressed alarm Thursday about the use of forced psychiatric treatment to punish political dissenters in Belarus. The experts have stated that 33 people have been ...

Turkish authorities brought charges on Wednesday against Joakim Medin, a Swedish journalist for Dagens ETC, for insulting the president. Medem was also charged with terror crimes, with a potential ...