Independent lawyering has never been more dangerous. As authoritarianism spikes around the globe, legal professionals are increasingly in peril—not simply for challenging power but for the clients ...

President Lee Jae Myung has nominated human rights lawyer Kim Ho-cheol as the new chief of the Board of Audit and Inspection ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge in El Salvador ordered a lawyer from a prominent human rights organization who has been an outspoken critic of some of President Nayib Bukele’s policies to be ...

International human rights groups have condemned the re-arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi in Iran, with ...

President Donald Trump is calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to "make a deal" to end the "ridiculous" war with Ukraine, which started nearly three years ago. During his 2024 campaign, Trump ...

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has called for a UN fact-finding committee to investigate the death of ...

A Pittsburgh lawyer who has spent his career working on international human rights cases now finds himself at the center of a ...

Lawyer and human rights advocate Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III welcomed the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) Board of ...

On October 13, as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal that saw the release of surviving Israeli hostages, nearly 2,000 Palestinians were released from Israeli prisons. Who are these Palestinians? Why were ...

(Beirut) – Houthi Authorities in Yemen arrested the human rights lawyer Abdulmajeed Sabra on September 25, 2025, for a social media post marking an independence holiday opposed by the Houthis, 17 ...

The family of a Colombian man who they say was killed in a U.S. airstrike off Colombia's coast has taken their case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, seeking accountability for deadly ...

Women’s rights constitute an integral component of the human rights framework under Indian law. The Indian Constitution, ...