The world is failing women and girls. With just five years left to accomplish the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), not a single country is on track to meet SDG 5: achieving ...

In a shocking discovery that has sent ripples across the international community, ongoing excavations at a mass grave site in Chemmani located in Northern Sri Lanka have uncovered more than 100 ...

Two years into Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are dead, and the rest of the population is facing increasingly dire humanitarian circumstances.

The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) condemned on Tuesday the arrest of Yemeni journalist Abduljabar Bajabeer after his July 28 arrest in the Hadramout governorate. CPJ called for ...

Drone strikes that damaged oil fields in Kurdistan, Iraq, risk escalating an ongoing dispute between the regional and ...

The Arakan Army, an armed group operating in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, has implemented repressive policies targeting the Rohingya minority, in violation of international law, Human Rights ...

A Massachusetts federal court granted a preliminary injunction on Monday in favor of Planned Parenthood, temporarily blocking the US President Donald Trump's administration from following through on ...

A Russian court sentenced journalist Olga Komleva to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for cooperation with the Anti-Corruption Foundation and the dissemination of false information about the Russian ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases. Because this finding gives the EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

Amnesty International condemned the murder of a prominent Palestinian activist, Awdah Al-Hathaleen, in a press release on Wednesday, highlighting the ongoing Israeli settler violence against ...

US lawmakers initiated a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday, challenging the administration's new policy regarding visitation procedures for members of Congress visiting detention ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a report highlighting the alarming extent of the Russian government's increasing technological control over internet infrastructure and digital ...