The United Nations leadership and its member countries need a backup plan to ensure lifesaving UN humanitarian aid and human ...

Welcome to a new weekly feature reviewing South Dakotans in the federal government, where we keep an eye on Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds, Rep. Dusty Johnson and Secretary of the Department of ...

The International Criminal Court and dozens of countries on Friday condemned sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that while public anger against the ousted Awami League government is justified, violating the law is not. In a statement yesterday (6 February), the HRW ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a major city.

Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court for pursuing "illegitimate ...

An Israeli military court sentenced a soldier to seven months in prison after he admitted to "severely abusing" Palestinians ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Trump an unusual gift in homage to the controversial pager operation ...