Baba Adhav, the veteran Indian activist who worked for the rights of unorganized workers, died on Dec. 8, 2025, aged 95, in ...

The Adirondack Park Agency’s top attorney, Damion K. L. Stodola, will be leaving the agency at the beginning of the new year.

Over the past years, the awards have highlighted notable defenders. In 2023, CHREEA claimed the top award with Tusaiwe Yana ...

As the US doubles down on overt interventions, experts warn policymakers may be overlooking a key battlefield: prisons across the region.

A DOJ investigation found in 2023 that the Houston neighborhood in question had been inundated by illegal dumping of trash, ...

Pakistan's political tensions boiled over as police used water cannons to break up a sit-in by Imran Khan's sisters outside Adiala Jail.

The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a ...

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has raised serious concerns over the state of fair trial guarantees and due process in Bangladesh, calling on the Muhammad Yunus-led ...

Colorado is ramping up an effort to measure water use on the Western Slope, developing rules and standards and rolling out a ...

To me, human rights defenders at risk are the people who help build civil and just society.” – Mary Lawlor, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders. ————– On Dec. 10 every year, ...

Shahid Azmi inspired us in ways far beyond what lawyers usually do. He told us early on that the case would stretch for years ...

The United Nations chief called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Tuesday not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in ...