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The governor of the Liguria region in Italy, which includes the port city of Genoa, was placed under house arrest on Tuesday amid a...

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to submit its views and recommendations for consideration by the United Nations secretary-general in response to Resolution 78/241...

LAFAYETTE, La. – Forrest Kevin Dwayne Matthews, 39, of Lafayette, Louisiana, has been sentenced on drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown.  Matthews...

Advocates of media freedom in the Philippines got some good news within days of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. On April 29,...

(Jerusalem) – Israel is contravening the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) legally binding orders by obstructing the entry of lifesaving aid and services into...

BOSTON – An associate of the violent Boston gang Cameron Street was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking. Michael Lopes, a/k/a...

RIVERSIDE, California – A San Gabriel Valley man was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for hiring a hitman in an attempt to...

DULUTH, Minn. – A Red Lake woman has been charged with murder, arson, and child neglect following the death of two young children on...

Last week, millions of people in Southeast Asia grappled with a record-setting heatwave that triggered thousands of school closures, put unprecedented pressure on power...

(Geneva) – United Nations member countries should press the Cambodian government on its human rights abuses, including targeting political opponents and dissidents, Human Rights...

U.S. Department of State Special Advisor on International Disability Rights (SAIDR) Sara Minkara is traveling to Chile from May 6 to 14 and Peru...

(Johannesburg) – Candidates in South Africa’s forthcoming general elections have been scapegoating and demonizing foreign nationals, risking stoking xenophobic violence, Human Rights Watch said...

Joseph Muscat, the former prime minister of Malta, is now confronting criminal charges related to a contentious deal involving the privatization of three state-owned...

During this week of National Holocaust Remembrance, we remember the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, as well...