The U.S. Supreme Court confronted a case on Tuesday with broad implications for human rights litigation in American courts, a ...

Amnesty International warned on Friday that Colombia’s continued use of military courts to handle killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and other grave abuses by soldiers and police is a ...

The verdict came after a five-week trial in which plaintiffs attorneys argued that Sudan would not have been able to commit its crimes against humanity in the early 2000s, when the country was ruled ...

A monthslong probe by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., compiled hundreds of alleged human rights violations at immigration detention centers, according to a new report about his probe first ...

A Pittsburgh lawyer who has spent his career working on international human rights cases now finds himself at the center of a first-of-its-kind challenge to the Trump administration’s continued ...

The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss died November 3 at the age of 99. Weiss served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for nearly five decades, where he worked to end ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...

On November 19, the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)—a regional court with jurisdiction over human rights violations in West African member ...

Dozens of political prisoners in Venezuela have been held incommunicado for weeks, months, and some for over a year. The lack of communication and denial of visits has become a form of torture, ...

Recently, serial human rights complainant and transgender activist Jessica Simpson filed a number of complaints with the ...

By Jan Wolfe April 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court confronted a case on Tuesday with broad implications for human ...