human rights

Do Elephants Qualify for ‘Personhood?’

Summary: An animal rights group is suing for elephants being kept at the Connecticut Zoo to receive legal personhood. An…

Summary: Texas has executed seven people so far this year. After multiple appeals attempts, Mexican citizen Ruben Ramirez Cardenas died by…

Summary: An appeals court in Mississippi said that HB 1523 does not harm the state's citizens. On Thursday, a federal…

Summary: Zhou Shifeng is the latest lawyer to be convicted by the Chinese government for subversion. The Chinese government has…

Summary: A court said today that the man behind the 2011 Norway attacks had his human rights violated in prison. International…

Summary: Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang receives his sentence from last week’s trial. After a highly publicized one-day trial last week,…

Summary: The Miss World pageant will begin in the middle of December, but one contestant will be missing as China…

Summary: One attorney is arguing everyone should have the right to explore the depths of their own minds, even if it…

Summary: On Friday, the U.N. ruled in favor of former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically-elected president who was…

Summary: With the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba after 54 years of being closed, the hopes of a…

Summary: A nurse in Maine hopes to loosen state quarantine laws with lawsuit against Maine. How far can state laws…

Summary: After the Tory party has suggested Britain scrap the Human Rights Act, the Labour party has organized a campaign…