Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee this week asked for Government approval for Ireland to intervene as a “third party ...

An Islamist double killer who took a prison officer hostage has won a court case on human rights grounds because he was depressed after being put in solitary confinement. David Lammy, the Justice ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A lawyer who accused an Alabama coal company of human-rights abuses in Colombia was hit with a $256 ...

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that ...

The verdict came after a five-week trial in which plaintiffs attorneys argued that Sudan would not have been able to commit its crimes against humanity in the early 2000s, when the country was ruled ...

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a third-year student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. He has been actively following developments in this discrimination case before the Canadian Human Rights ...

When sexual violence cases collapse, is it flawed policing or a broken system? Two rulings at Europe’s top human rights court ...

The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss died November 3 at the age of 99. Weiss served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for nearly five decades, where he worked to end ...

The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss has died at the age of 99. Weiss served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for nearly five decades, where he worked to end South ...

Governments often justify “quiet diplomacy” by arguing that public condemnation closes channels, endangers diplomats, or reduces leverage for humanitarian outcomes.

A cabinet minister has today confirmed that the government is looking into how it might “reform” the European Convention on Human Rights. While this is very careful language – and does not suggest the ...