Human rights issues—from equal treatment for minorities to freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights, such as speech, ...

The kin of the victim family received 10 lakh compensation previously on the directions of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Environment Infrastructure Improvement Project.

Simply tasting Australia's Vegemite spread might seem like cruel and unusual punishment to some, but one prison inmate from ...

Incarcerated women in the U.S. are routinely punished for menstruating due to prison rules that fail to account for basic ...

As neural implant technology and A.I. advance at breakneck speeds, do we need a new set of rights to protect our most ...

Pope Leo XIV said being "pro-life" should extend beyond opposing abortion, citing compassion for immigrants and opposition to the death penalty.

A classified report by a U.S. government watchdog has found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip that would take the ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will not need ...

A comedy festival in Saudi Arabia featuring high-profile American performers is drawing intense criticism from human rights advocates who say the star-studded event helps gloss over the kingdom’s ...

Peace in every part of the world has no alternative and we must and should continue to work together and persistently on this, said the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željko ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new United Nations report details a Nicaragua tightly in the grasp of co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, where the legislative and judicial branches answer ...