A New York law sealing certain criminal records took effect on Saturday, one year after New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed it into law.  The Clean Slate Act automatically seals criminal records ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent a letter to the US Senate on Thursday, warning the legislative body that the ...

A US federal appeals court on Friday temporarily lifted a trial court’s blocking of a Louisiana law mandating public schools ...

Thousands of marchers descended upon New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland on Wednesday as part of the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti ...

Imagine sitting on the subway in the middle of the afternoon, going about your day, when armed officers abruptly board the ...

Amnesty International revealed on Thursday that the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are using United Arab Emirates' (UAE) armoured carriers, incorporated with French military technology on the ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a report on Thursday that the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta routinely ...

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.

The Supreme Court of India directed Friday the newly formed Jammu & Kashmir union territory government to frame a policy for ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Edwards, on Thursday called on Ecuador to investigate and prosecute the alleged ...

Israel’s forced displacement of civilians in Gaza could constitute a war crime, according to a report by Human Rights Watch ...

Yemen Houthi authorities have transferred 12 detained individuals to criminal prosecution while denying them due process rights, with some facing death penalty charges, according to a Human Rights ...