As a federal judge considers taking Rikers Island out of the city’s control and handing it to a court-appointed receiver, the ...

Years after horrifying abuses and corruption in the Georgia state prison system began to come to light, Gov. Brian Kemp and the Georgia Legislature are taking action. On Tuesday, Kemp released his ...

This week, the United States accused the RSF militia in Sudan’s brutal civil conflict of committing genocide. It’s the second ...

The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...

The report offers yet more evidence of the UN-backed group’s complicity in terror and further challenges Unrwa’s prevailing ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on Wednesday that the escalating gang ...

These figures alone cannot capture the absolute horrors being perpetrated in Haiti, but they show the unremitting violence to which people are being subjected,”  said U.N. High Commissioner for Human ...

Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles ...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces has used systematic murder and sexual violence in its war in Sudan, the U.S. government says as ...

Soaring gang violence in Haiti left over 5,600 people dead last year -- over 1,000 more than in 2023 -- while thousands more were injured or kidnapped, the United Nations said Tuesday.

More than 5,600 people were killed and thousands more injured or kidnapped in 2024 due to soaring levels of gang violence in ...

In Haiti, gangs have killed hundreds of people and shot journalists at a news conference, exposing the country’s fragility ...