A US appeals court suspended the release of hundreds of people on bail after they had been arrested by immigration ...

Nearly one in three women have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence, the World Health Organization said.

Dozens of Indigenous protesters, some holding babies, peacefully blocked the entrance to the UN climate summit in Brazil on Friday to demand a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and ...

Around 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the midst of an internet blackout.

Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the UN General Assembly just over a week after an independent UN Commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide — the worst crime under international law.

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands of people protested across France on Thursday over President Emmanuel Macron‘s planned austerity policies, disrupting much of the country’s public life. Heeding a call from trade ...

Government gestures to calm deadly protests in Indonesia have done little to address the economic inequality and hardship fueling the unrest, leaving deep resentment to linger and flare up again, ...

A US federal judge on Thursday barred the US President Donald Trump‘s administration and Florida state government from bringing any new migrants to the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” ...

Jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong shrugged and shook his head after a Hong Kong court this month announced a fresh charge of breaching the city’s national security law. The 28-year-old protest ...

A US appeals court on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump could continue control of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, over the objections of California Governor Gavin Newsom. Trump ordered ...