The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering ...

The Minneapolis City Council approved a deal to overhaul the city's police training and use-of-force policies over the 2020 killing of George Floyd.

Coverage of Syria’s prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror ...

In a self-recorded video, the suspect in the deadly New Orleans truck-ramming attack was wearing Meta smart glasses to scout ...

ATHENS, Greece — The European Court of Human Rights, in a landmark ruling Tuesday, found that Greece had illegally deported a woman back to neighboring Turkey and described the use of summary ...

The 2022 protests against Covid lockdown and subsequent crackdown on people marked a rare show of dissent in China ...

The retiree, 74-year-old Saad Almadi, is one of at least four dual Saudi-American nationals who accuse Crown Prince Mohammed ...

Daniel Nexon is a Professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown ...

Aiming to build solidarity on human and civil rights issues, Wake Up Sonoma is organizing a rally and march through downtown ...

The Minneapolis City Council has agreed to a federal consent decree to implement major reforms within the Minneapolis Police Department.

McDonald's is the latest to shift its tactics in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling and the conservative backlash that followed. Walmart, John Deere, Harley-Davidson and others have also rolled back ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ugly American is over.” ...