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 ...

GENEVA (AP) — The United States on Friday snubbed a review of its human rights record by a United Nations body on orders of ...

A U.N. meeting to review the United States' human rights record opened without the U.S. on Friday, with rights groups calling ...

The United Nations said the United States' attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific are violations of ...

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

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and ...

“Internationally, the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment has already been universally agreed upon ...

The United Nations human rights chief says the Trump administration "must halt" strikes on alleged drug boats to prevent ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for an investigation into the strikes in what appears to mark the ...

On August 15, 2025, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2487 into law, amending the Illinois Human Rights Act (“IHRA”), 775 ILCS 5/7A-102. Among other reforms going into effect on ...

LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately affected by interruptions to SNAP — about 15 percent of LGBTQ+ adults received SNAP benefits in the past year, compared to 11 percent of non-LGBTQ+ ones, according ...