A trial scheduled to begin on 29 January 2025, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, is causing significant public attention because of the gravity of the charges ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that Libyan authorities have used a 'litany of overbroad and draconian legacy laws' to suppress civil rights activists and organizations. The group said ...

Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus ...

Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers will introduce a bill on Friday requiring the Trump administration to review whether ...

Donziger was subsequently prosecuted by Chevron’s law firm in a case that Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch said “broke a basic ...

Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024.

The Georgian government drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing ...

Croatia has warned its citizens against traveling to neighboring Serbia after five Croatian activists were deported after ...

Human rights activists in Kenya held demonstrations on Monday in Nairobi and Mombasa, demanding the release of individuals allegedly abducted under unclear circumstances. The protests, organized to ...

Human Rights Watch criticises Central Asia's worsening rights situation, with authoritarian governments cracking down on ...

The EU made a slew of concessions in order to give Egypt a “clean bill of health on human rights” and ram through an aid package of €1bn to Cairo, rights activists say. The payout ...

Dozens of activists beat and burned a piñata resembling Donald Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City on Monday.