Ahead of the Speak Up for Justice panel, JURIST Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas spoke with Judge Eleazar Javier Saldivia, a former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge now living in exile, ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Some had waited decades, others only years. They came from 41 nations but took the same oath. All became Americans on the same day.

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Russian authorities said at least three people were killed as Ukraine claimed an attack on a military plant in the city of ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

The Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action provides a path for Member States, United Nations entities, regional organizations, private sector actors, and civil society – ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

The Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for over half-a-million Haitians living in the United States has sent shock waves throughout South Florida, the beating heart of ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas as Maduro operatives had rifles pointed at him and his ...

To combat this growing threat, the United Nations has declared 15 November as the International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime.