The number of women subjected to stop and search by the police has risen in England and Wales despite a fall in the use of the tactic towards men, figures show.

On Friday afternoon, a federal immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, the lawful permanent resident who was arrested last month for his advocacy for Palestinian rights at Columbia University, was removable – that is to say, deportable – under the law.

In a meeting between the ambassador of Switzerland in Tehran and the Vice President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary of the High Council for Human Rights, the strengthening of judicial and human rights cooperation between Iran and Switzerland was emphasized.

‘Palestinians aren’t just being exterminated with US-supplied bombs. The more insidious killer now is disease and starvation.

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said.

The United States government’s abrupt and irresponsible termination of foreign assistance is putting the health and human rights of millions of people in Yemen who depend on humanitarian aid at risk, Amnesty International said today.

The U.S. government said on Wednesday it will begin screening the social media of immigrants and visa applicants for what it called antisemitic activity, leading to swift condemnations from rights advocates, including some Jewish ones, who raised free speech and surveillance concerns.

B.C.'s Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender says she has found "systemic discrimination" in how health authorities detain vulnerable adults who are at risk of harm.

Israel’s actions in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory are leading to a massacre of Palestinians, a group of independent human rights experts warned.

The African Union (AU) expelled an Israeli ambassador from a conference on the Rwanda genocide on Monday, the Israeli foreign ministry said.