The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 15 heard oral arguments over a Voting Rights Act provision and the White House drew attention ...

Voting rights and strong democratic institutions are essential to ESG and sustainability. A vital bit of legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark law that prohibits racial discrimination ...

South Korea called Thursday for stronger global cooperation at the United Nations to combat human trafficking tied to online ...

A legal group representing Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in Israeli custody for nearly a year, said his detention had been extended for another six months.

Investigators suspect that two Californians diagnosed with mpox may be the first U.S. cases resulting from the local spread of a different version of the virus.

Human rights lawyers accused 122 European officials of committing crimes against migrants in the Mediterranean Sea ...

Lawyers argue that the agency’s new policies have led to the detention and removal of victims of domestic violence and ...

President Rodrigo Chaves repeals Costa Rica’s 2019 therapeutic abortion protocol, tightening access to life-saving cases ...

Across Europe, the boundaries of expression are being tested on issues such as Palestine, transgender rights, religion, ...

M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...

Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves has further restricted access to abortion, limiting it to situations when the mother’s ...

A new report recounts recent reprisals from two dozen countries and underscores ICIJ’s reporting on Beijing's tactics to ...