On October 9, Human Rights Watch with Tokyo-based Human Rights Now and Peace Boat held an event at the Japanese Diet to press ...
Human rights lawyers launched a legal challenge on Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing economic sanctions on employees of the world's permanent war crimes tribunal, ...
President Donald Trump said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed ...
Federal officials have sued pro-Palestinian demonstrators involved in a heated protest outside a New Jersey synagogue last year, citing a law created to protect abortion clinics from obstruction and ...
The conservative justice wants to overturn cases wrongly decided in his view. Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should take a more critical approach to settled precedent, saying decided ...
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said Thursday she doesn’t think of herself as a “swing justice,” distancing herself from a label that court watchers have sometimes ascribed to her. “A swing ...
When the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded earlier this month that Israel’s war on Gaza amounts to a genocide, it was not alone. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, ...
The Supreme Court’s oral arguments are, at their core, exercises in advanced legal reasoning – disputes over constitutional boundaries, statutory ambiguities, and the very structure of American ...
WASHINGTON — When then-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinions in a series of major gay rights cases, he was surprised – and disappointed − by the vehemence of the opposition from ...
The military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger said the court had become a tool of neocolonial repression. All three governments have been accused of human rights violations. By Ruth Maclean and ...
Bishop Simon Kamomoe, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, has called for justice so that peace can prevail. The call came ahead of the International Day of Peace, marked on ...
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin now identifies as a transgender woman who has suffered severe mental illness, including suicidal ideation, according to newly surfaced court ...