JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Dr Carrie McDougall, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School on the ...

A federal judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with firing almost every employee working within the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) agency, Community Relations Service (CRS), ...

UN experts on Thursday welcomed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s adoption of a landmark declaration ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that the US Department of Agriculture must use previously appropriated contingency funds to continue food stamp benefits, blocking the agency's plan to suspend payments ...

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern Thursday about violent protests that erupted in Cameroon following the announcement of the presidential election ...

UN Commission on the Human Rights in South Sudan members on Wednesday voiced concern over the growing risk of nation-wide conflict returning to South Sudan. The commission pointed to increasing ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed alarm on Wednesday about Turkish government proposals to criminalize people within the ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday called for an investigation into a US airstrike on a migrant detention center in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen in April. The airstrike was part of 'Operation Rough ...

Devastating impacts result from US state laws that require healthcare providers to notify a parent when their minor-child elects to have an abortion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Wednesday. In ...

A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday halted the Trump administration’s plans to layoff thousands of federal employees in the wake of the government shutdown, ruling that the administration ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called for the reversal of a Kyrgyzstan court ruling issued on Monday. The Oktyabrsky District Court ruled that publications by the ...

Twenty-six states sued the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts for the department’s suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition ...