UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a speech on Wednesday urging UN member states to invest more effort in addressing the gender gap in women's sports and promoting the ...

The United Nations on Tuesday called for immediate de-escalation and the protection of civilians as violence intensifies in multiple parts of Syria at a briefing in New York. Inter-ethnic violence ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called for an urgent ceasefire on Tuesday, following a series of large-scale Russian missile and drone attacks on densely populated ...

A group of independent UN experts on Wednesday called for the immediate and impartial investigations into the deaths of individuals held in Belarusian custody for exercising their right to political ...

The Moscow court sentenced on Tuesday a father of five to three years of imprisonment on the charges of financing a terrorist organization. Dmitry Marsov was arrested in April this year for donating ...

Amnesty International called for Pakistan to release high-profile Baloch activists on Tuesday, condemning the arbitrary detention of the protesters. A letter to authorities called for the release of ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday commended the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)'s decision in the case of South African runner, Caster Semenya, who challenged regulations imposed by World ...

Human rights organizations in Greece condemned a new law for its alleged violation of international and EU legal protections for asylum-seekers in a joint release on Wednesday, which bans ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a statement on Wednesday warning against the signing of new amendments to the Kyrgyz Code by President Japarov, which impose administrative ...

JURIST Staff, US Earlier this month, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz proposed relocating Gaza’s population to designated camps in the southern part of the Strip—an ...

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan.   Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech ...

Taylor Bruck, the Ulster County, New York Court Clerk, refused to docket an order for summary judgment against Dr. Margaret Carpter on Monday. The order imposed a $100,000 sanction against ...