Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

LGBTQ rights endure when they are written into or otherwise grounded in national constitutions; culturally normalized across ...

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered damning judgments against Russia. In finding published on Wednesday, the ...

The principle of “non-refoulement,” which prohibits the return of individuals to places where they may face harm, has been a ...

The European Court of Human Rights delivered two of four rulings against Russia in an international inquiry brought by ...

Europe’s top human rights court is set to rule Wednesday on Russia’s actions in the conflict in Ukraine, including human ...

Comprehensive international human rights law began with the creation of the UN. “Before the end of World War II, how a state treated its own inhabitants was nobody else's business” (Louis ...

Jenny Martinez talked about her book, [The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law], in which she chronicles efforts in the late 18th Century to ban the international slave ...

Rabat - The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the Human Rights and Civil Society Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed, on Friday in Rabat, a cooperation protocol ...

By overturning federal protections for abortion access, the U.S. "is in violation of its obligations under international human rights law," the letter said, detailing alleged violations of rights ...

International human-rights law and its various mechanisms have long been exploited as a weapon of wicked regimes against flawed democracies (which is most of them).

It’s the first time an international court has concluded there have been widespread human rights abuses by Russian forces in ...