The political head of the body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights has told the BBC that it is "absolutely ...

The Council of Europe’s secretary general Alain Berset told the BBC he was open to engage on migration issues over the treaty ...

Parliamentarians are making decisions today that will define Australia’s compliance with international law for years to come.

The European Convention on Human Rights is exactly 75 years old. When it was agreed in November 1950, it was intended as a ...

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member ...

When the world emerged from the horrors of World War II and vowed “never again,” nations laid the foundation for the system of international justice that now exists to address the planet’s worst ...

The European Parliament's legal committee adopted a report on Wednesday calling on the European Union to legally require ...

As authoritarianism spikes, legal professionals are increasingly in peril because of the clients they are willing to defend, ...

Peter Weiss, a trailblazing attorney and a tireless advocate for human rights, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons, died November 3 at the age of 99, one month shy of his 100th ...

Hungary's ban on school talks about sexuality or transgender issues is "an affront to human rights", Britain's first Special ...

The UN's human rights chief has condemned US military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and ...